Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

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

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.