I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

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

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

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.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

Always contend for the good!

Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

The malicious have a dark happiness.