The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation of individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plight may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, i almost certainly will.