If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!