The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Everyday is one less day.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

It is enough to know, too much to see.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.