The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.

Humans by nature are promiscuous. Loyalty is an aberration!

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

As for me and my family, we'll worship God.

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.