When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Everything above and below is one unity.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.