I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them 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.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games