Never Root For A Team

It's A Very Exciting Time In The History Of This Country, To Even See People Responding To A Different Way Of Doing Business And Really Wanting To Make A Change.

The Trouble With Being An Activist Is You End Up Like Eve And You Get Kicked Out Of The Garden Of Eden. You Know, Eve Was The First Person Who Thought For Herself. And She Still Gets A Bad Rap. I Named My Daughter After Her.

It Didn't Seem To Have Relevance, Except In Central America Or South America, Countries Where The Church Was Connected To The Fight Of The People For Economic Justice. That's Why It Was So Interesting To Find Myself Back With Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], This New Breed Of Nuns Who Were Making A Difference In The Community.

I Can't Speak For Other People, But For Me, It Never Really Worked To Think Something Like, "what Beatle Did She Like In High School?" Or Those Kinds Of Elaborate Backstories.

9/11 Just Seemed To Come Out Of The Blue. And There Were People Asking Questions, But Then There Were No Answers. At Some Point, It Just Turned Into, "we've Got To Do What We've Got To Do." And I Think Those Are The Moments When You Grow, When You Get The Opportunity To Try To Figure Out, Exactly As You Said, What Price Are You Paying, And If It's Worth That Price.