People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I said to God you are lucky, you can create exalted mother, God replied you are luckier than me because you have mother

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

You have the optimism of a child. (Julian) Peter Pan all the way. (Grace)