I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.