But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I'm going to quit writing.

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.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

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.