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

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.

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.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

Truth is the summit of being.

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.

I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.