Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.