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If We Look At Houston, Which Is A Very Environmentally Toxic Place, We Find That It Has One Of The Highest Levels Of Young Men Going To Prison And Also Among The Highest Levels Of Illiteracy In The Country.

Some Of These Things I Saw In Foreign Films - African Films, Cuban Films - Long Before I Decided To Really Go On This Course As An Actor. I Started To Think About What Values I Saw In Those Films That I Wanted To Bring To My Projects

I Try To Find Hope In Struggle And Resistance In Small Places As Much As I Can.

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 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.