It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.