The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.