I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

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.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.