You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

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

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.