There is no shame in black beauty.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.