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

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.

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

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.