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

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

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

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.

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

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

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