We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.