Quotes from Ilyasah Shabazz

Minute by minute. I'm bounding with it. Where are we going? Anywhere we want. I realize the power and the potential of that. Absolutely anywhere.

Me, I'd rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren't meant to fit me.

She's the sort of girl who gets high easily, off the music, off a moment. Maybe I was like that when I first came down the Hill. All wide-eyed and trying to take it all in. Everything was exciting.

Sophia is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I guess this is what all the songs mean when they talk about love. I want to swim in her, swallow her, breathe her.

I'm not afraid...I'm awake to the way they think now...They have to have us in a box. They have to have us know they could shoot us. At any time.

Nothing to do but just keep moving, keep stepping. Don't stop, or it'll catch you. If it catches you, it's over, the dance is done, and there's nothing left but to lie down and close your eyes. So just keep moving.

Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.