In 1967, The Students At San Francisco

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.

I Remember When Langston Hughes Used To Write A Column In Black Newspapers Around This Character Jesse B. Semple. He Always Used That As A Voice, Sometimes In Comic Ways, Of Having Everyday People's Voice Come Through This Common Folk Hero, Who Was An Ordinary Working Guy. He Would Talk About Anything From Police Brutality To The Korean War. Those Kinds Of Expression And Identification Are No Longer Prevalent In Our Popular Culture.

Every Day Of My Life I Walk With The Idea That I Am Black, No Matter How Successful I Am. And Our Success Is Tempered By That; You're Successful In This Way Given The Fact You Are Black, And Most Blacks Don't Get To That Point.

I Want People With Epilepsy To Know That There Are Ways In Which They Can Play A Role In Their Own Recovery. It's All In How They Approach What Is Happening And How They Can Use That As A Catalyst For Their Own Growth. If There's One Thing That I've Learned, It's That People Are Willing To Embrace You If You Share Your Story.