Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

A burnt child dreads the fire.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.