I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

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.

Yes, Dad collared me before I was even born. Nevertheless, he made me the one in authority of the collar and myself.

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.