I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

The black church will accept anybody.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.