Each person has a literature inside them.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

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

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.