The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

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.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.