Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.