If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.