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"You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I didn't really want to be a comedian."
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"I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything."
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"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."
Men
"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row."
Death
"Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects."
Values
"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."
Life
"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me."
Choice
"Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage."
Education
"But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision."
People
"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
Civil rights
"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
Community
"I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years."
Family
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