Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.