The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

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.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

Giving up is the greatest failure.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.