President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

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.

Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

Saving was slow and painful.