I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

Life isn't about what you achieve but the emotions you get out of it all.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

All things are symbols.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.