I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

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.