Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

I am not an African. I am an American.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.