In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

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

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

I don't think I'd live anything over, even though I've made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I'm not one to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I'll take my life the way it is.

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.