I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.