It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.