Quotes by Mumia Abu-Jamal

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Education

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Life

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Wisdom

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Wisdom

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Success

You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Wisdom