“I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.”

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you,

Life is too short to do something you don’t want to do.

I’m in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same.

She’s pretty amazing.

She can switch up the delivery, but it’s still with the right intention.

That’s what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

That’s how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I grew up in New York and I’ve always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

And I’m not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral – that can’t happen.

My mother’s a pretty warm, open person.

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like “Wait, what’s happening?” so I Googled it.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

I realized in school I didn’t like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites???

I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books…

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.