The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

If You Aren't Having No Fun, Die, Because You're Running A Worthless Program, Far As I'm Concerned.

When We Were Doing The "angel Dust" Thing We Got Information From The National Institute Of Drug Abuse Because We Knew That If We Went Out And Said Something About Angel Dust People Were Going To Ask Questions About It And We Wanted To Be Sure We Had All The Information To Deal With It When Those Questions Came Up. So It's All A Question Of Being As Prepared As Possible Out Front, So That If You Are Going To Deal With Information It'll Be Correct. A Lot Of People Won't Check It Out But Some People Will.

I Work Hard At It [delivery Of Lyrics], Just Like I Worked Hard At Getting My Masters Degree. It's Not Just Something I Sit Down And Do. You Have To Learn And Keep Learning.

A Good Poet Feels What His Community Feels. Like If You Stub Your Toe, The Rest Of Your Body Hurts.

You See Martin Luther King Is Dead And Huey Newton Is Not. And Malcolm X Is Dead And Bobby Seale Is Not. And Vernon Jordan Was Shot. The Thing That Revolutionaries, Or Even People Who Want To Claim They're Revolutionaries, Often Forget Is That It Doesn't Make No Difference What Kind Of Wardrobe You Wear, And If You Speak Up About Black People Doing Better You Just Risked Your Life.