Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.