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.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

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

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

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