Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

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?

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.

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

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.

Only the ones who run are worth catching.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.