When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.