Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put in...
Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice...
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigg...
You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
He was trying to get me to come insideand away from the scene,but I said, No.I said, We have to stay hereand watchbecause this is wrong.