You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider it an amuse-biatch.

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.