I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!