Ken McGorry Quotes

“Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!”

“A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.”

“Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.”

“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.”

“Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.”

“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.”

“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”

“I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.”

“My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.”

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”