The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U. S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you see someone that you can help. . . you get a gratification from doing it. In fact, I think that is perhaps the most important, you might say, fabric that holds the society together.
I want to be a soul singer.
Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.