Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.