Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.