Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten- the secrets of married women by Carol Mason

Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.