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.

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.

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.

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.

Take no stock in saying, "never", because it carries no guarantee.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.