There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

I was trained as a straight dramatist..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era..

I've never not been famous..

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I have to change to stay the same..

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch w….

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..