The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk