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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

When we stand, we do so not only for ourselves, but also for countless others who have similar stories but may never have an opportunity to be witnessed.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.