I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Life doesn't always go the way you planned it to go. Sometimes you have detours you have to take.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.