harry belafonte is one of the most dignified, well-educated, lucid, focused, eloquent men i have ever met in my life and has a sense of humanity to him and a sense of-- of what really matters. i wish i could run him for president. he wouldn't take the job. but he's a truly wonderful human being, and he was certainly one of the most astounding interviews. the man is a walking history book. you know, he was walking next to martin luther king at all of those things. it was him. he was there. he was the guy next to him, and he told us stuff that you won't believe. if the six bullet story doesn't make your hair stand on end and make you want to cry, i didn't-- now you have to tell it. you do need to tell it. do you? okay, i'll tell it. in the harry belafonte interview, he said, "i went--" in this wonderful, whispery voice, "i went to an event with dr. king, "and when i arrived there, there was a large man, "a sheriff, who looked at me with hatred, "with real anger in his eyes. "and i couldn't help but notice him, "but i ignored him, and i went on to do what we came to do. "dr. king spoke.

people like bill graham, johnny hooker, george lopez, miles davis, who have been my teachers, and harry belafonteve great, great teachers, you know? and eduardo almos, who carried themselves with this incredible grace and dignity. and i can do no less but keep up. >> and sitting next to him, george, are you going to be a little more serious now? because these are deep, profound thoughts. >> no, absolutely not. no, absolutely not. there's no one that's more well-rounded and more worldly than carlos santana. that is the dynamic of our relationship. one of love, one of respect, and also, there's a mutual sense of humor between us. nobody knows, this dude is the biggest rodney dangerfield fan in the whole world, in the whol world. so, he's got it all. he feeds himself through the words and through the laughter, and that's, ultimately, damian, what's really most important. when you tell jokes and you're making people laugh, that's what you're doing, you're creating from your mind and recollecting things that happened to somebody that happens to everybody. that's the beauty of it. >> well, happy cinco

and so roger moore and liv ullman and harry belafonte and many, many artists are unicef representativesntative, i've traveled to vietnam and to bosnia, croatia, macedonia. it's--it's one challenge after another. does that--does that journey leave you with the sense that--that we can fix the world's problems? or is it just a succession of challenges that we--we can never seem to clear the slate? there's always something, something somewhere that judy collins needs to address. well, there's something somewhere always that all of us have to address, and i think that's probably at the root of our-- of our efforts. and there always will be, because that's what life is, is a series of evolving joys and evolving challenges. and to be a part of one's culture and to be involved, i think many, many, many, many, many people-- millions of people are involved in-- in the process of saving the rainforest, of raising money for-- in this recent tragedy. the outpouring of--of giving to the families of the firemen, the rescue workers, the families of those who--who have lost so many people. the work of o

have said that my mother raised me to be a combination of albert einstein, mahatma gandhi and harry belafonte. >> what questions do you still have about her? >> i would like to understand their relationship better. she sat down on january 1985, she is in her 40's, in hawaii, and she moved back with her daughter and she wrote a list o long-term goals. and they start off with,ou know, finish your ph.d. which she was logging in her 15th year or so, you know, lose weight, some interesting things i had not expected, remarry another culture, raise amaya well, her daughter, and further down the list, continue constructive dialogue with barry. he was in his early 20's then and any mother would want a constructive dial with their son but there are other indications that suggest that she was aware of a distance between them that bothered her. now, whether that was inevitable or whether that was the product of the way she raised him, allowing large distances to occur and he grew up partly in hawaii with her parents wh she was working in indonesia and i would like to understand their relationship better.

martin luther king talked about the conversation that harry belafonte often subscribed and also verified by congressman payne, he said i feared that we may be entering a burning house. meaning we may be entering a period in which america is not willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary to finish this journey. remember what we martin luther king died, martin luther king, the civil rights race was over. his march, that last phase of for economic justice. he was on his way to launch a poor people's campaign for an economic bill of rights to make sure every person, every speck of race, color and creed had a house, education, income. that was the radical proposition that got martin luther king assassin a. so now when we raise, these dark getters, massive this assessment. because yes, we were played as a political football the whole notion of welfare, food stands, poverty program, all of this that was conceived in the mind of the american public has been programs for black people. but all along frankly in terms of not absolute numbers, more white people are being served by these progra

martin luther king talked about your the end of his life about the conversation that harry belafonte describes and also verified by congressman payne. he said i fear that we may be entering a burning house. we may be entering a period in which america is not willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary to finish this journey. and remember when martin luther king died, the civil rights phase was over. his march at last phase was for economic justice. he was on his way to launch a poor people's campaign for an economic bill of rights to make sure every person in respect of race color and creed had a job, housing, education, income, that is the radical proposition that had martin luther king assassinated. and so now, what we face in these dark get -- ghettos, the notion of welfare and food stamps and poverty programs, all this that was conceived of in the mind of the american public as being programs for black people, when all along in terms of absolute numbers, more white people were being served by the programs than black people. [applause] there was a racial subject. and that wa