Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate..

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them..

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a w….

Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe..

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker..

The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvie….

I'm always geeking out about something..

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer..

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough..

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!.

I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It….

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wr….

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But we can't go back. We can only go forward..

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself a….

But it was an ending..

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be..