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“People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.”

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Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

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The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

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What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14…

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I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.

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A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup.

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When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

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