I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford..

If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if you try to do it in a way that….

...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to rela….

I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something b….

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel..

My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like….

I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just d….

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue..

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound..

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I do….

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise..

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. Yo….

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that d….

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought ….

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you..

You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms,….

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have whe….

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him..

I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particular….

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm a better writer now because I don't ….

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on..