Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

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.

Adversity often defines dignity.

Somewhere in the infinity of his personal universe.

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

I trust you all slept well, ” I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich’s glare with a tight-lipped grin.“Yes, we did, ” Kaden answered quickly.“I’m sorry to hear that.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.