“We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.”

We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.

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!

But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.

Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer’s Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.