Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.