If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.