It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

A public debt is a public curse.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.