I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.