A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.
For in the end freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
My work is about my life and what I want to do with it.
In my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect...
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know...
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you...
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
The acting is something that will always be a part...
