“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”

You’re going to relegate my history to a month.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

I don’t have to work. I could stop and never have to worry about paying the rent. I’m working for the joy of doing it.

Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.

Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle.

I’m not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.

You don’t know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don’t have it.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it’s not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

You are never too old to have a revelation.

Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.