I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don’t try to elaborate your thinking for future.

People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

There is work that is work and there is play that is play

I knew it would be you

Being on a set for one day is hard enough no matter what it is. You're the new guy, and you go in, and as you get comfortable it's over.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.