For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

There's racism everywhere.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.