I love tennis, love it!

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.

Be the positive light that the crowd follows

The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Death is only passing through God's other door.

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.