There's racism everywhere.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.

I've worked with children all my life.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.