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

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

I am the me I choose to be.

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.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.