Occupation: Actor Birth: July 22, 1946
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….
Art is about the dynamics of the human experience..
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..
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….
Democracy is about criticism..
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in..
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….
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America..
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….
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward..
I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
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….
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can..
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….
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement..
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I jus….
The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty..
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe..
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….