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.
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.