People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
