Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized..

When I say that I don't know what my next thing is, I don't. I'm just gonna read scripts, and if I see something that jumps out at me, I'm just gonna….

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together..

Money has no religion except itself..

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently..

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself..

Success is being nothing but a quote..

Don't start something that you cannot finish..

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives..

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy..

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference..

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

I've never not been famous..

I preferred to read than talk with the others..

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything..

I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined up. I don't know what I'm looking for..

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do..

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many..

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 ….

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?.

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012..