The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

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

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.