They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.