I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.