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

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

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

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.

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.