Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

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.

The best opportunity for our uplifting is the opportunity to give.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Jesus is who saved me. He's what keeps me full and whole.