I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

Democracy is about criticism.

Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row