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

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.

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

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

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.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

It is better to risk starving to death than giving up on your dream. If you have given up on your dream, what's left?

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

A picture is a model of reality.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.