So sweet and precious is family life.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

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.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

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.