I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side.