American Masters

(percussion music) - It's up to you. As long as you think you are White, there's no hope for you. As long as you think you are White, I'm gonna be forced to think I'm Black. "Another Country" is about Blacks and Whites, trying to connect, trying to respect each other, trying desperately to love each other. I love a few men. I love a few women. And a few people have loved me and I suppose that's all that saved my life. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. (crowd roars) (gun fires) I mean, they're killing my friends. As simple as that. And have been all the years that I've been alive, for no reasons which have any validity. (upbeat music) (car siren wails) (rock guitar music) This is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my assistant, my children, on some idealism which you assure me exists in America which I have never seen. (audience claps) It is not a romantic matter. It is the unutterable truth. All men are brothers. That's the bottom line. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. (upbeat percussion music)