As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

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.

Don't just view me as an actor.

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.