These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?