At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!

Don't regret

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

The time is always right to do right