What happened when 'Sweetback' made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation.
A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.
If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.
Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.
