Harlem is filled with moments of history.

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

You look like the vamp who bled the cat.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

...sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don't have a universe to rule.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!