The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

It is highly important to always know whether your daily thoughts are working for you or against you.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...