In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

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.

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.