We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.