I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques