It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

It's not worth having if it comes with no effort.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.