I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

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

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

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

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.