It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Sometimes it felt like no one was ever there for her. Everyone thought she was so strong. And she was, for the most part. But that didn’t mean she never needed anyone to lean on.

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible