Huey Laforet Quotes

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

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

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

Hot lovin' every night. ~ Huey Lewis

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place. ~ Vincent Laforet

We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff. ~ Huey Newton

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself. ~ Huey Newton

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool. ~ Huey Long

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off. ~ Huey Lewis

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star ~ Huey Lewis

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

Some creatures are born to live, others to work, others to watch life. I had a small, miserable role as a spectator. Impossible to get out of it. Impossible to free myself. A dreadful grief was the only reality for me then ~ Carmen Laforet

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 jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~ Huey Newton

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period. ~ Huey Lewis

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

That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn't sound so young. ~ Kaye George

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master. ~ Jerry Wexler

When I founded the party in 1966, I had just turned 24.And each year, no, not each year, each day I live I've gained new experiences. Now the criticism is not to say the party did not play a positive part in those times, but, in order to be objective, we did not accomplish the things we set out to accomplish. ~ Huey Newton

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

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

That's what I've always found so pathetic about fans. They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to doing anything with that inspiration, like enriching their own lives. It drove Stanny-boy crazy. He used to say to me, 'Huey' - it was his nickname for me - 'Huey, they see the films five times, write me fan letters, but the underlying meaning is lost on them. They take nothing away. Not heroism. Not courage. It's all just entertainment. ~ Marisha Pessl

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. ~ Huey Newton

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry. ~ Huey Long

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

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

Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community. ~ Vincent Laforet

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes ... They're here. They've got to be cared for ... The poor Negroes have got to live, too. ~ Huey Long

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 would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here ... It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination. ~ Huey Newton

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life ~ Huey Newton

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening ... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come. ~ Huey Newton

The United States is already antique. ~ Huey Newton

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down. ~ Huey Long

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

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

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it. ~ Huey Newton

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

Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen. ~ Huey Long

What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings! ~ Carmen Laforet

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time. ~ Huey Lewis

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

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned. ~ Huey Long

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

War is the greatest failure of mankind. ~ Aaron Huey

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

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ... ~ Carmen Laforet

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