As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.' — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled with people… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church."… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
