We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.