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I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.