Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change.

Stress itself is not what’s toxic. It’s our relationship to it that's the hazard.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.