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.

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.

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

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

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

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

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