“I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, go...” — Alice Walker Quote

“I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.”

“We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.”

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'”

“I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.”