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'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.

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.

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.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

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