You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

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.

Trust in yourself, your ability, and your struggles, but not in your appetite.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.