I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.