Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.