I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the energy to do anything.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.