“In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.”

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.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world – a pure race doesn’t exist.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the cultural shifts to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.