Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I'm always moving forward.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it, and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better.

WHY is the word which changed the world

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

I've always been into sports and being physical.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.