I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

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."

I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.