I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Patience is not waiting

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

Love truth, and pardon error.