I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play