Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

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

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

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.