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.

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

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

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.