I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Small wins and major victories are important because they encourage and inspire you to keep your faith and stay the course even when everything around you seems to be falling apart.

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Trump is, to some extent, redefining what we think of as polarization in this country. Where polarization has been seen as ideological, it is now being seen almost as behavioral.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.