To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

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.

I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

America is like the greatest hit of the world.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.