I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions
Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.
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.
Democracy is about criticism.
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.