“A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

My sincerity is my credentials.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.

Studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the cultural shifts to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.

In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.