I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After all, he [Dr. Martin Luter King] was only 39 years-old when he was assassinated, and only 36 during the Selma campaign. He always seemed older than he actually was, and I believe part of that had to do with just how much life he had to live in order to lead this movement.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

I hear God as an audible voice.