You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

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.

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.

She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other everywhere.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

I think there's something special and timeless about girls getting ready together.

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.