Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

I hear God as an audible voice.

When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.

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

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA 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.