We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want to know where you are and who you are. You cannot understand the present without understanding the past, especially when it comes to family.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work