I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.