I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.