America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

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.

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.

If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.