We Were Trying To Increase The Conflict

I Always Said This And The People Think It's A Cute Answer, But I Say We Have Always Been In The System And That's Why We Fight Because We Don't Like The System. We Are Trying To Transform It.

I Do Not Expect The White Media To Create Positive Black Male Images.

I Expected To Die. At No Time Before The Trial Did I Expect To Escape With My Life. Yet Being Executed In The Gas Chamber Did Not Necessarily Mean Defeat. It Could Be One More Step To Bring The Community To A Higher Level Of Consciousness.

Just Before I Left [cuba], I Was About To Transfer To The University. I Had Decided I Had Had Enough Experience In Work In The Manual Areas. But Then I Got Word From The United States That I Could Return...that My Party Had Gathered Enough Information About The False Charges That Were Against Me For Me To Return To The United States.

I Had A Lot Of Time And The First Year I Was In Prison, I Tried To Get The Party To Stop The Shooting, To Stop The Talk About The Gun Thing.