We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

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

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Art simply can’t be stopped.

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.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.