“We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.”

I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.

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

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.

We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.

I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.

If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.

Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

Little things please little minds.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.