Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I am not strong on perfection.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.