Huey Quotes & Sayings

We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked. — Huey Newton

I'm happy to be stuck with you. — Huey Lewis

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that. — Huey Newton

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it. — Huey Newton

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States. — Huey Newton

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise. — Huey Lewis

I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things that our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful and at worst genocidal-but there's an incredible and a permanent culture of resistance in this country that I'm very proud to be a part of. It's not the tradition of slave-owningfounding fathers, it's the tradition of the Frederick Douglasses, the Underground Railroads, the Chief Josephs, the Joe Hills, and the Huey P. Newtons. There's so much to be proud of when you're American that's hidden from you. The incredible courage and bravery of the union organizers in the late 1800's and early 1900's-that's amazing. People of get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave. — Tom Morello

I'm a tired runner in the human race. — Huey Lewis

Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to. — Huey Newton

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

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. — Huey Long

I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy ... would it be okay for me to love? Could you ... let me love you? — Ryohgo Narita

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. — Huey Newton

If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag. — Huey Long

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't. — Aaron Huey

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table. — Huey Lewis

The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica. — Huey Newton

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. — Huey Newton

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside. — Huey Newton

When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game. — Huey Newton

Actually Grandad Christmas is a pagan holiday and Jesus probably hates you for celebrating it. — Huey Freeman The Boondocks

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. — Huey Lewis

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. — Aaron Huey

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it. — Huey Newton

War is the greatest failure of mankind. — Aaron Huey

Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out. — Assata Shakur

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party. — Huey Long

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism. — Huey Long

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. — Huey P. Newton

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference. — Aaron Huey

Sometimes sexy women like to act stupid because it helps them get exactly what they want. Theresa Boudreaux was one of those types: a bodacious waffle-house waitress with a devilish streak. Unfortunately for a certain high-ranking elected leader, she had the wits to go to RadioShack and buy herself a nine-dollar phone-recording device. She then used it to tape her dirty phone calls with US Congressman Huey Hartley, a powerful, sanctimonious, married-for-thirty-years politician from the solidly red state of Mississippi. — Holly Peterson

I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones. — Huey Newton

Nobody could have possibly known that the FBI had sent a phony letter to Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, 'signed' by the Panther 21, criticizing Huey Newton's leadership... no one could have known that the FBI's cointelpro was attempting to destroy the Black Panther Party in particular, and the Black Liberation movement in general, using divide-and-conquer tactics. — Assata Shakur

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. — Huey Newton

You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools. — Huey Long

Why the long face? Something happen?"
"Nothing except my grandmother is still dead and my aunt moved to Sacramento and my sister just got out of a mental hospital."
"Oh," Huey says.
I spread my sack out, ready to load. Huey folds his handkerchief in half then in half again. I need him to check my count before I can go.
"Which part of Sacramento," he says, and I shrug. — Bob Thurber

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws. — Huey Newton

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. — Marg Helgenberger

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. — Huey Newton

Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do. — Huey Newton

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision. — Huey Morgan

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. — Aaron Huey

toddler named Huey Newton was spirited from Monroe to Oakland with his sharecropper parents in 1943. His father had barely escaped a lynching in Louisiana for talking back to his white overseers. Huey Newton would become perhaps the most militant of the disillusioned offspring of the Great Migration. — Isabel Wilkerson

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York. — Huey Lewis

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. — Aaron Huey

I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America. — Huey Newton

Huey was something else. Huey was out of sight. He knew how to do it. Huey was ten motherfuckers. — Bobby Seale

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men. — Huey Long

The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation. — Huey Newton

During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire. — Huey Newton

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect. — Huey Newton

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. — Huey Long

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder ... but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject ... we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history. — Brandi L. Bates

Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings. — Huey Newton

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. — Huey Long

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program. — Huey Newton

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. — H. Rap Brown

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. — Huey Newton

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education. — Huey Long

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me. — Dr. John

Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government! — Huey Long

Take it from me, its hip to be square. — Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller. — Huey Lewis

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver. — Huey Newton

I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World in general. I'll like to say this - we in the United States would never believe that another form of goverment - I don't care even if it's against the racism, etc. - it is hard to get the masses of people to believe or accept that a socialist government will relieve them of most of the problems. — Huey Newton

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do. — Huey Long

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted. — Huey Lewis

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

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. — Huey Newton

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan. — Aaron Huey

Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself. Are you really ready to see that vision? — Huey Freeman

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. — Huey Lewis

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. — Huey Newton

The hoarders of wealth have destroyed humanity by millions in their quest for greater accumulation. — Huey P. Long

The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people ... The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America. — Huey Newton

I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards. — Huey Long

I think I like you just fine, Red. Half the men in this city would be god-awful horrified at the thought of a woman working alongside 'em, much less a woman of my years. But you didn't even think twice about it - just assumed I was along for the working. I like that." Huey sighed. "He's not noble. He's lazy." "Lazy, noble, I don't care. — Cherie Priest

The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s. — Edwin Meese

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. — Huey Lewis

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. — Huey Long

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick. — Huey Lewis

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny. — Aaron Huey

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. — Huey Newton

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue. — Huey Long

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent ... in that way. — Huey Newton

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag. — Huey Long

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. — Huey Newton

Men are separated by so many petty things. — Aaron Huey

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims. — Huey Newton

One more spin around the sun ... Ain't nuthin' changed. Still got trouble on my mind. Still got suckas that need to get dealt with ... Still in mortal combat with the wicked ... — Aaron McGruder

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio. — Huey Lewis

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. — Huey Newton

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner. — Huey Newton

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever! — Huey Newton

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library. — Tessa Thompson

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey

Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman, once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology he would have enjoyed wide support from the New York and London intelligentsia. — Robert Conquest

The marines gave me an eternal discipline. — Huey Morgan

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies. — Huey Lewis