I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.