I THINK it's very important for PEOPLE to not judge the people you're playing. You have to FIND a WAY to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there WOULD be any use in that.

The THEATRE was CREATED to TELL people the truth about life and the social SITUATION.

I THINK that's a very important PART of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have LIVED through so MANY stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we COULD create something completely different.

The United States EXISTS as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in CONTRAST, exists as a myth of democracy and EQUAL opportunity to live by, or as an ideal GOAL to REACH.

Before TRYING a NOVEL I WROTE a COUPLE of PLAYS.

Surveillant ANXIETY is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally HARD to SEE; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in FRONT of Senate committees.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and HYPERBOLE to garner the AMERICAN PUBLIC for SUPPORT?

Jean Toomer is a PHANTOM of the Harlem RENAISSANCE. Pick up any general study of the LITERATURE WRITTEN by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and MEMOIRS of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.

I think of myself as a journeyman ACTOR. I've got some talent and I WORK HARD, but people LIKE Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.