Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'

We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.