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.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

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 really view communism as a bad thing.

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.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

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