UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

Yoga is just good for you.

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.