"The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way."

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.”

Source : "Objectified" by Joe Winkler, www.guernicamag.com. October 22, 2013.

“The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.”

“The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.”

Source : "There Is an Audience for Our Films: Four African-American Female Filmmakers Speak Out". Interview with Lorenza Muñoz, www.thedailybeast.com. December 4, 2012.

“Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.”

“Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.”

“We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.”

“Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.”

“Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.”