As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

When you're generating your own stuff, you can never have too much money around, because you've already sacrificed so much and cut your budget so much that everything's taking a hit.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.