I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

Follow leaders who follow leaders.

If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, if the Holy Spirit lives in you, then God guarantees your success

If we do right, we shall rejoice.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].