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

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.