The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

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 first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Live your dream and never wake up

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.