“I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.”

This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.

Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

Don’t talk to us like we ignint!

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

I’ve seen too much in life to give up.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.

Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.

I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.

I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.

I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.

You know, it’s no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone.

In these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought.

I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.

The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.