Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.

There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

Good givers are great getters.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.