Top 38 Huey P Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we'd be sued by American Express.
Huey Lewis
#3. The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
Huey Lewis
#4. Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey
#5. 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
#6. While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.
Huey Morgan
#7. Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
Huey Lewis
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.
Huey Newton
#11. 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
#12. For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
Huey Long
#13. The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.
Huey Newton
#14. If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
#15. Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
Huey Lewis
#16. We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.
Huey Lewis
#17. The hoarders of wealth have destroyed humanity by millions in their quest for greater accumulation.
Huey P. Long
#18. The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey P. Newton
#19. My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey P. Newton
#20. Men are separated by so many petty things.
Aaron Huey
#21. She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.
Huey Lewis
#22. Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton
#23. 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
#24. Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.
Huey Morgan
#25. What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
Huey Newton
#26. 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
#27. I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
Huey Newton
#28. You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
#29. The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives
Huey Freeman The Boondocks
#30. 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
#32. You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
Huey Lewis
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.
Huey Long
#36. 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
#37. [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
Aaron Huey
#38. 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
