Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement..

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and invol….

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America..

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience..

I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is ha….

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in..

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us..

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion..

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a r….

Democracy is about criticism..

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in t….

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were….

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak….

Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, mak….

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to….

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward..

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe..

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice f….

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The e….