Democracy Is About Criticism.

[the Strike In 1968] Brought Us Together With Teachers And Also With Progressive Whites. All Of Us Came From Diverse Backgrounds, But At The Same Time The Reasons Why We Were At San Francisco State In The Late Sixties Was Because Of The Agitation And Movement Building That Had Occurred Within Our Communities. We Saw Ourselves Not Separate From The Community But Intimately Connected To It.

In 1967, The Students At San Francisco State Invited The Poet Amiri Baraka To The Campus For A Semester. He Attracted Other Influential Black Writers Such As Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What Emerged Was Something We Called The Community Communications Program. That's How I Got Involved; I Got Involved In A Little Play

Art Is About The Dynamics Of The Human Experience.

But I Think It's Very Key That There's A Plan For Haiti. And We Have To Begin To - As Progressives And People Who Are Concerned About Haiti And Have Been Concerned About Haiti, We Have To Begin To Build Some Sort Of Consensus, A Movement Around The Haiti That The Haitians Envision.

Remember, We're Talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] About 1967, The Year Before [martin Luther] King's Assassination. We're Talking About The Emergence Of Black Power, Which Is A Discussion King Mentioned In His Last Book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? We're Talking About The Meaning Of Black Power And The Possibility That It Alienated Our Supporters, Both White And Black.