“Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.”

“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”

“As we all know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we're afraid we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the woman or shut her up because we're afraid that she might castrate us. The remedy is to gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people.”

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”

“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”

“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”