An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.

Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.

My final thought, before falling into the golden haze of time travel, was that these adventures on medieval Óshéanús had been the greatest days of any of my lives, past or future.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.