Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.