You couldn’t always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you’ll be alright.
Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let’s face it, it turns out I’m black. And I’m having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.
An actress can only play a woman. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
That’s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in.
Actors have no color. That’s the art form.
Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it’s got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you’re a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I’ve visited Africa, and I’ve got news for everyone: I’m not an African.
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don’t be an actor because you think you’re going to get famous, because that’s luck.
If you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So people used to say to me, ‘You’re like a whoopee cushion.’
You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
Everything for me is visual. That’s just how my head works.
I’m a big old egotistical baby and that’s okay. I can accept it.