Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.