The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.