I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.

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

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

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

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.