I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.

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.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

I read the newspaper.

Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

I'm very good at being out of work.