There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. . . Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.