I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

If you work hard, it will pay off.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

The internet has allowed me to just be authentically myself, as opposed to having to perpetuate a certain image, and so I'm lucky that I don't have to fit into a certain box.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

If we listen, we shall learn.

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

I don't really like ska.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.