Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.