Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

There is no depth to education without art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

I’m selfish.Selfish enough to want it all.And I know if I don’t have you . . .. . . I don’t have anything.

The very shadows seem to listen.

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.