Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there.