Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

In this revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

All that is of the earth and the mouth Of man.

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.

Revolution is a universal rule of evolution. Revolution is a universal principle of the world. Revolution is the essence of the struggle for survival or destruction in a time of transition... . Revolution turns slaves into masters.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.