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.

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.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music