When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.

All things want to float.

By your work you show what you love and what you know.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

If there is a will, there is always a way my friend

Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.