I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

Dating black women will ruin your life

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

I just wanted to be a scientist