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

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

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

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.