As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.