Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

Give more, don't expect not to be repaid. Give more thanks for what you haven’t expected but received!

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.