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“Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.”
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“This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been broken”
Source : "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014. 
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“John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.”
Source : "Interview with John Byrne: Editor and Founder of Rawstory.com". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.
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“I want to be remembered as an actor who was able to touch people with what I offered to the world. That a young person, especially a young black woman will look at me and see herself and know that she too can achieve whatever dream her heart creates.”
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“Education is the ticket to success”
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“I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. I thought I'd try it, and I'm still trying it, 40 years later.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.”
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“If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.”
