When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a stat….

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of strugg….

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we….

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many peopl….

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual str….

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down..

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you..

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine..

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression..

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me..

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

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over t….

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politic….

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism..

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a….

We are pregnant with freedom..

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the wor….

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't kno….

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle..

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putt….

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa..