Bobby Seale Quotes

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

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

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

The Ballot or the Bullet

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

We have been saying "Freedom" for six years. What we are going to start saying now is "Black Power". We have begged the President. We've begged the federal government. That's all we've been doing, begging and begging. From now on, when they ask you what you want, you know what to tell them.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

The history of the black man did not begin with slavery.

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art another.