I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

Libraries...house our dreams.

I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

War is not a jobs program.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.