The only thing we have is each other.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't know about it? Why are people living like this? Do they want to live like this?

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.