A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.