The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.