We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

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.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

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

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

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

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.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.