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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists. -- Bobby Seale
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party. -- Bobby Seale
But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy. -- Claudia Cardinale
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. -- David Alan Grier
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party. -- Bobby Seale
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses. -- Bobby Seale
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. -- Kool Moe Dee
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security. -- Alexander Cockburn
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why. -- Bobby Seale
Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals. -- Tupac Shakur
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. -- Bobby Seale
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people. -- Bobby Seale
Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus. -- Andy Serkis
My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework. -- Sho Baraka
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party. -- Manning Marable
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. -- Bobby Seale
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock. -- Jack Black
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver) -- Gordon Parks
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. -- Bobby Seale
Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity. -- Rashid Johnson
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context. -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships. -- Kerry Washington
I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing. -- Brian Posehn
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley. -- Bobby Seale
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans are affirming their identities while dealing with vilification and dehumanization. The image of a black hero on this scale is just really exciting. -- Joe Robert Cole
Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans of my writing. But I had to compete with the other writers who were put up for it - no one hands out jobs. -- Joe Robert Cole
My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther. -- Tupac Shakur
There is a huge fan base for the Black Panther comic and for Marvel as a whole. And I think there is great anticipation across the board for the movie. I think that's how Marvel is approaching it and I know that's how I'm approaching it. -- Joe Robert Cole
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. -- Fred Hampton
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! -- Allen Tate
I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther, either. -- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. -- Nicolas Cage
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad. -- Sally Hawkins
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression. -- Brendan I. Koerner
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings. -- Queen Latifah
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class. -- Dan Wheldon
If called by a panther, don't anther. -- Ogden Nash
Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther. -- The Edge
Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf. -- Cassandra Clare
She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther. -- Richard Ford
I'm like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power! -- Giuseppe Zanotti
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. -- John Lyly
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea. -- Daniel Handler
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out. -- Huey Newton

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