I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
From Danny Glover
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
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 involved lives.
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.
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.
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 this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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