If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

[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.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.

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.

[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.