A biography for Bobby Sealehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.”
“I like Barack Obama.”
“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.”
“If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.”
“The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.”
“The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.”
“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.”
“Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.”
“I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.”
“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.”
“You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.”
“The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.”
“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.”