I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.