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

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

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

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

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

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

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