There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you're in it.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

I enjoy being surprised.

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Keep on being yourself.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.