In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

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

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.