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Democracy is about criticism.
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.
Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.
I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.
What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years
I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.
Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.
The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.
I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.
It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.
Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.
My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.
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.
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.
Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.
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.
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.
Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.
We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.