“There is power in hearing history from the people who lived it. Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time brings history to life through the voice of a man who stood at the center of it. This book is raw, revealing, and deeply personal, offering a window into a movement that forever changed America. This book is as necessary now as it was when these words were first written.”

“Growing up in Oakland, you heard the name Bobby Seale different than the rest of the country heard it. Bobby, Huey, and the entire Black Panther Party carried a certain level of respect. Seize the Time is why—it’s the real story from a man from Oakland, who built something that lasted.”

“One of the most important things we can do to preserve and share the legacy of the Black Panther Party is to make sure younger generations can hear directly from the Panthers themselves. Too often, the history of the Party has been interpreted, distorted, or told by people who were never part of it. Seize the Time is different. This is Bobby Seale telling the history of the movement he and Huey built together. His firsthand account is invaluable, and bringing this book back to readers helps ensure that Bobby and Huey’s voices, ideas, and the true history of the Black Panther Party as they created and lived it continue to live on.”

“As a writer of historical fiction, I know how important it is to recover the voices history too often reduces to footnotes. In Seize the Time, Bobby Seale does something even more powerful: he gives us history in his own voice, preserving the people, the movement, and the truth from the inside.”