My future's about trying to be a better man

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.