I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

No one should be judged by the worst moment of his life.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.