I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.