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.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

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

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.