“Black history is being comfortable in your own skin no matter what color you are. Black history makes me proud of where I came from and where I am going in life.”

No matter what color you are, the history of Blacks affected everyone; that’s why we should cherish and respect Black history.

Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American.

Black history changed America and is continuing to change and shape our country. Black history is about everyone coming together to better themselves and America.

So if I’m swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don’t want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I’m a vitamin!

If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer.

I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.

Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.