Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.