I think that having a black president in America has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that America is now engaging with how we have come to this point.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.