I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

I'm never shaken or stirred.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

A camera is a save button for the minds eye.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.