I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.

I think that more than writing and music, my greatest talent is that I have an instinctive knack of self-image propagation. I was very good at manipulating pub…

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

The term eunuchs was used by Eldridge Cleaver to describe blacks. It occurred to me that women were in a somewhat similar position. Blacks had been emancipated…

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.