That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.

I feel responsible to know what I'm talking about and to actually express myself the way I choose. We have to put those messages on a global platform period. That, to me, is inspiring.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

I try to be as intentional as possible.

People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.

As a young, Black man, I absolutely feel responsible.

Everyone has a platform, so if we could just use that and combine what we have and know -we talk about it in private - we might as well talk about it [publicly] together.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

Do you ever have dirty thoughts about spongebob?

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.