A bunch of people who are greater than I could ever hope to be: Jean Luc Godard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aung San Suu Kyi, Morgan Tsvangirai, Takeshi Kitano, Paul Auster, Sam Shepherd, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Bharati Mukherjee, Rachel Robinson, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Nawal El Saadawi, Muhammad Ali, Russ Feingold, Hank Aaron, Wim Wenders, Michael Apted, Lech Walesa, Werner Herzog, Jhumpa Lahiri, F.W. de Klerk, Errol Morris, John Updike, Eric Rohmer, Martin Amis, George McGovern, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Feeney, John Hume, Gore Vidal.Oh, and Jennifer Connelly.