Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.