Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Discover what you are..

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..

I didn't not perform..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of ….

Underconfidence breeds underachievement..

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new..

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..