I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Thoughts, intentions or feelings cannotcomprehend God but they can see and acknowledge the works of God.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!