I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human.

I have been dying for twenty years now I am going to live.

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.