No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.

History is Storytelling.

Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.

Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.

We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Before Fringe I was in Dirty Sexy Money playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.