When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

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.

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

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

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

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

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?