Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.