Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

I love babies. I could take care of them for all the days of my life and I'd be happy. It is for sure passion No. 1.

I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.