As A People We Do Not Need

When I Went To School, You Had To Take Art, You Had To Play An Instrument. You Had To Play An Instrument. But It's All Degraded Since Then. I Do Not Know What Kind Of Nation We Are That Is Cutting Art, Music, And Gym Out Of The Public-school Curriculum.

My Grandmother Lived To Be 100 Years Old. Her Grandmother Was A Slave, Yet She Was A College Graduate In The Spellman Class Of 1917. She Taught Art For 50 Years And She Saved Her Social Security Checks For Her Children's Education.

Because Many Advances Have Happened, We've Lost The Urgency (and That's Just Human Nature) That We Had Before, When We Couldn't Vote, Couldn't Use Mass Transportation, Or Drink From The Fountains.

I Think It Would Be Very Boring Dramatically To Have A Film Where Everybody Was A Lawyer Or Doctor And Had No Faults. To Me, The Most Important Thing Is To Be Truthful.

I Think Black People Have To Be In Control Of Their Own Image Because Film Is A Powerful Medium. We Can't Just Sit Back And Let Other People Define Our Existence.