I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experience…

- Mahershala Ali

The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

- Mahershala Ali

At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience.

- Mahershala Ali

As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings…

- Mahershala Ali

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundar…

- Mahershala Ali

When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African…

- Mahershala Ali

I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in my dad's existence that I enjoyed whe…

- Mahershala Ali

What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts…

- Mahershala Ali

I think what I've learned from working on "Moonlight" is we see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

- Mahershala Ali