Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

They will never count me among the broken men.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not liking the idea the Soviet Union back together.

Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.