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

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 ….

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else….

Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at ….

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance..

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and….

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that..

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice..

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization..

My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career..

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing H….

I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in America. It is an extension of ….

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

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the fi….

I think that having a black president in America has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that Ameri….

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

The wonderful situation that I find myself in now, is that choosing the roles I want is more of a reality for me. As a result, I take it very serious….

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which….

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be loved, the loss of love, or having their lo….

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

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences..