I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

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

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

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