You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and s….

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make ….

Colour is not the issue in America; class is..

The first revolution is when you change your mind.

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These ….

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that r….

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are e….

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts..

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something..

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying t….

All the dreams you show up in are not your own..

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldr….

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that..

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mi….

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every….

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live..

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die..

I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to cont….

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor..

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need ….