“Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.”

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn’t run in races! Come on!

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.

Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there’s so much culture around.

Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.

Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.

I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.