Every Day Of My Life I Walk

Some Of The Most Amazing Stories Are Happening On The Global Scene. My Extraordinary Producing Partner, Joslyn Barnes, She's Just Virtually Changed My Life With The Way She Constructed This Company And How We Go About Telling The Stories We Want To Tell.

We Have To Be That Wedge That Drives The Question And Asks The Hard Questions

Kids Made Fun Of Me Because I Was Dark Skinned, Had A Wide Nose, And Was Dyslexic. Even As An Actor, It Took Me A Long Time To Realize Why Words And Letters Got Jumbled In My Mind And Came Out Differently.

Those Titles, Executive Producer Or Actor, Are Unimportant. I Always Try To Approach My Role As An Artist. The First Thing You Want To Do, That You Attempt To Do As An Artist, Is To Have Some Sort Of Input Into The Material That You Are Working On. That Is How My Process Begins; I Say To Myself: "i Want To Do This Kind Of Work Or I Want To Do That Kind Of Work."

[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.