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

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

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.