You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.