No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
