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

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.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

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

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

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.