I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

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.