I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

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.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

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

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.