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

We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.

We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.

We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.

I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism

We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

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.

For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win!

Dare to risk public criticism.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I like movies made by Spike Lee – doing those films out of the U.S., that is really daring.

I like to be daring and I like to be different. You think anyone out here looks like me? It’s pretty different, right?

Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.