My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

If you work hard, it will pay off.

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The internet has allowed me to just be authentically myself, as opposed to having to perpetuate a certain image, and so I'm lucky that I don't have to fit into a certain box.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.

I'm an introspective dude.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

I was aborted and did not die.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.