If you work hard, it will pay off.

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.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

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

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.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

A couple of words is all it'll take to make everything in my life Before and After.

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.