Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
“I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.”
“The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.”