BOBBY SEALE

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

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

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

I like Barack Obama.

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.

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 think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

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.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

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.

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

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.

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'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

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

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.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.