To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!

A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.