Choices Are Much More Practical

Our Future Can't Be Separated From The Fact That We Are All Going To Be Increasingly Compacted Into Urban Areas, Though We're Different In Race And Culture And Religion. And What We Make Of That Will Determine The American Future.

I Always Tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. He Never Got A Decent Bite Of The Apple, So I Was Happy We Had A Role That Seemed Perfect For Him. I Like The Idea Of Him As One Of The Few Moral Centres Of The Wire Show.

There Are Two Americas - Separate, Unequal, And No Longer Even Acknowledging Each Other Except On The Barest Cultural Terms. In The One Nation, New Millionaires Are Minted Every Day. In The Other, Human Beings No Longer Necessary To Our Economy, To Our Society, Are Being Devalued And Destroyed.

That's What We Were Interested In: How Power And Money Ran Itself, Much More So Than 'drugs Are Bad, Drugs Are Good.' That Seems To Me A Simple Moral Equation And One You Don't Have To Spend 60 Hours Of Television Examining. And I Think The Same Thing Is True With How We Approached Pornography Or Prostitution. Prostitution's Been Around Since The Bible, And Pornography's Been Around Since About 15 Minutes After The French Guy Invented The First Camera.

Unless You Loosen The Hold That Your Past Has On You, Your Future Will Unfold In Much The Same Way . . . It Is Time To Begin Writing A New Script That Accurately Reflects The Beautiful, Powerful, And Worthy Being You Are.