Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.