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

Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.

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.

I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.