Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

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.

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

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

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.