Top 100 Huey's Quotes
#1. One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown
#2. When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.
Huey Newton
#3. I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
Huey Lewis
#4. I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
#5. I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
Huey Lewis
#6. I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .
Huey Newton
#7. Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
Aaron Huey
#8. I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.
Huey Morgan
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.
Huey Long
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.
Huey Newton
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
Aaron Huey
#22. Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
Huey Newton
#23. 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
#24. The choices I make - they have to be creative.
Huey Lewis
#25. 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
#26. Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.
Huey Long
#27. The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown
#28. How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!
Huey Long
#29. When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
Huey Lewis
#30. You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!
Huey Lewis
#32. I think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one common denominator. The Cubans found a way to liberate themselves and we haven't found the way yet. So that's the difference.
Huey Newton
#33. 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
#34. Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical - yes, or more obsequious! - than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch
Sinclair Lewis
#35. 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
#36. Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
Huey Lewis
#37. 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
#38. It's true, I do like cheering people up.
Huey Lewis
#39. The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie ... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
Warren Spector
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.
Huey Lewis
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Every man a king - that's my slogan.
Huey Long
#48. Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
Huey Lewis
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
Huey Lewis
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. [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
#62. 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
#63. All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.
Huey Long
#64. 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
#65. Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
Huey Lewis
#66. You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
Huey Lewis
#68. She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.
Huey Lewis
#69. 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
#70. You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
#71. I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
Huey Newton
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.
Huey Morgan
#75. 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
#76. Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton
#77. I'm a tired runner in the human race.
Huey Lewis
#78. I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
Huey Long
#79. 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
#80. I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey
#81. The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.
Huey Lewis
#82. The hoarders of wealth have destroyed humanity by millions in their quest for greater accumulation.
Huey P. Long
#83. The marines gave me an eternal discipline.
Huey Morgan
#84. You can't express your true feelings until you know what they are
Jo Huey
#85. 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
#86. War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey
#87. In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.
Huey Long
#88. I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.
Huey Newton
#89. 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
#90. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton
#91. Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.
Huey Newton
#92. We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.
Huey Lewis
#93. Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
Huey Lewis
#94. If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
#95. 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
#96. For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
Huey Long
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
