Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

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.

Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure

Everything is within the limit of possibility by the grace of God.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

There is no democracy without journalism.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.