A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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.

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

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.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.