If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

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.

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

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

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.