“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.”

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.

Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.