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.

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.

Success is achieved by the deliberate consistent discipline of taking small steps daily rather than one large step occasionally.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.