For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

Seek to know God and thy sacred self.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

You made me to think of others, by thinking others I may forget you... Be Aware

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.