Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.