The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

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.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

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