“People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.”

In dark hours, true leaders rise.

If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.

If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.

For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.

I am not a huge fan of surprises.

FBF to one of the most beautiful locations I’ve ever shot at.

Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.

I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.

I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.

I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.

I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.

I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.

Sometimes when you’re acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Seasons change and our love went cold.

Some things never change!

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Change in all things is sweet.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

If you don’t change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.