The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.