So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.