Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. - Huey Newton

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I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary. - Luca Guadagnino

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You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. - Huey Newton

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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. - Huey Newton

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.- Huey Newton

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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. - Huey Newton

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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. - Huey Newton

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I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system. - Huey Newton

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