Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

I was punished for communicating.

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.