C. B.Hampton Quotes

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

There’s a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

I watch every 'Real Housewives' franchise there is.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?