Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.