It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

When you don't find a way... don't wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be your own angel.

Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.

I have oatmeal every morning with whole milk, bananas, and cinnamon, and it's just the best thing ever.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.