Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.