Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

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 world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

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

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

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on.