I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.