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

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.

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.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

A right delayed is a right denied.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.