When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he ….

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up ….

The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these….

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot whe….

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to ….

I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Act….

I enjoy being surprised..

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know..

My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey, we had trash thrown….

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel.".

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get i….

Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for m….

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other..

I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested i….

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there y….

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit..

Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the scre….

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home..

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment..

Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you'….

I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were go….