The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

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.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.