If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

I think all life situations are built for you to be able to share.

I do a lot of family shows.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.