“But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party – whose members for the most part come from the ghetto – seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people’s language.”

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.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

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

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

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

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.

Our position was: If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

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.

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.

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

We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

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.

The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!

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

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.

In English every word can be verbed.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.

If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.