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.

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.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.