As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.