“I voted for you during your last election.”

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

To read too many books is harmful.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.

Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?