The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family..

I think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one ….

During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one i….

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very….

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual ….

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation tog….

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs ….

We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's ….

When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep….

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

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide….

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way..

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

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea..

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning..

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing..

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

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

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

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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people..