I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.