You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.