People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.
I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.
People don't even know that we have political prisoners.
The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.
I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.
We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.
What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.
George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.