"But we have altogether too many pimps and punks, and black capitalists
(who
want a piece of the putrescent pie). There's no way to predict.
Sometimes
people change fast. I've seen it happen to brothers overnight. But
then
they have to learn a whole new set of responses and attack reflexes
which
can't be learned overnight. So cat's like me who have no tomorrows
have to
provide examples. I have an ideal regarding tomorrow, but I live an
hour at
a time, right in the present, looking right over my nose for the
trouble I
know is coming.
There is so much that could be done, right now. . . .But I won't talk
about
those things right here. I will say that it should never be easy for
them
to destroy us. If you start with Malcolm X and count all of the
brothers
who have died or been captured since, you will find that not even one
of
them was really prepared for a fight. No imagination or fighting style
was
evident in any one of the incidents. But each one that died professed
to
know the nature of our enemies. It should never be so easy for them.
Do
you understand what I'm saying." George L. Jackson