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

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.

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

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

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.

To love you fully is to love you in every way possible, even in the smallest, most inconspicuous ways that will eventually all lead back to you.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I count only the hours that are serene.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

What always was must always be.