“The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.”

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.

Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.

She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.