Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left….

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..

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..

I've never not been famous..

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In f….

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..

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..