I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

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

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

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?

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.