I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

If you work hard, it will pay off.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The internet has allowed me to just be authentically myself, as opposed to having to perpetuate a certain image, and so I'm lucky that I don't have to fit into a certain box.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

You can graciously live through every struggle.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.