If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

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.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

With endless possibilities, every morning the sunrises.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.