You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

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.

If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.