I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

You are never to drive like that, ” I told them. “Even if you are ever wealthy enough to own a Jaguar.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.