People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.

If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

Authority to heal is given from on high.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.