The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring them along with us in pur….

I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I ….

What I wanted to do was put a woman of color, front and center, in my movie combining a lot of themes that were relevant to both men and women. I act….

I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did….

When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young girl, I had a vision of the woman I wanted to be. And ….

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly ….

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the c….

What is right can never be impossible..

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma..

There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive differe….

If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their love?" And if it weakens their love, ….

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions ab….

What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a corner as filmmakers ….

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are..

You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And then I could talk ….

I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and put as much of the budget on….

The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a v….

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our presen….

To really talk about African story, and teach this story, you have to teach that tribes were actually nations. You have to teach that chiefs were act….