“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

“An army of the people is invincible!”

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.”

“There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.”

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”

“In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.”

“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.”