Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

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.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.