I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.