Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.