Stop telling women to smile.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

War is a seed of bigger war, but Peace is the seed of God.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.