It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.