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

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

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.