My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

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.

If you say one lie enough times, it becomes truth people start to believe. (That's how it works - Extracted)

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.