People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Please others and you please yourself

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you, ” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I'm just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.

The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

There is a time and a place for creativity.