Bobby Seale

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. ”

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ”

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. ”

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. ”

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party. ”

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes. ”

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer. ”

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. ”

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change. ”

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines. ”