As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.

Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is the most concentrated form of oligarchy where it depends on one King who is ordained supposedly by God to rule.

I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.