“When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.”

— Huey P. Newton

quoted in David Hilliard (2006) Huey: Spirit of the Panther, p. 46

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