That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I'm always moving forward.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

You make every case for marriage but love.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.