“You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.”

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.