I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

Without Struggle There Is No Success

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.