There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.