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 not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

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

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.