Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.