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.

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.

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.

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.

Man does not live by bread alone.

You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!