It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with 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.

A step from the past always demands a step in the mind backed by a robust action. The very place you fall is the very place you make the first move to move.

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

I’m done with the winning cause I’ve already won.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.