I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.

It is your daily responsibility to give your subconscious mind enough reasons to deeply perceive life as a beautiful adventure.

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

You cannot become successful all by yourself.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.