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

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

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

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.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.