An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

But what she feels is sometimes hard to express...Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.

Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.