My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

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.

Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

To have a positive influence on someone's life is a blessing.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.