We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.

Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.

Unity is not agreeing with each other about God. Rather it is agreeing with God about each other.

Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.

The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.