“If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.”

Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.

Power anywhere where there’s people!

We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.

Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.

Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.

We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.

If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life

A revolution is a class struggle.

You can’t build a revolution with no education.

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.

You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.

In the wrestle for victory, let us not forget that greatness comes with defeat.

Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I remember a lot of people, but when I meet people and I’m stoned, I’m not as good with names.

This moment! – this here-now – is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

We repress, Oppress and silence her voice but forget that without her, nothing is possible.

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.