To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.