We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions ….

I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young p….

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now.".

In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women..

When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifyin….

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have be….

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of ju….

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, somet….

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hat….

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it..

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen..

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better..

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies..

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself..

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has p….

If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the ….

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and….

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinit….

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim..

I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you t….

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this toget….