We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.