Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

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The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.