You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.