I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

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.

There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.

They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children.

We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it

Yogis love to be alone.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?