When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

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.

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.