Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

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

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.