No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.