We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You’re going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I’d say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.
I think it’s really important to give yourself a very big question that you’re working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC – this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC – guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away – I’ve seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
Suddenly in high school, I’m in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
In my profession, I’m around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they’re going to spend their lives.