Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

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

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects