Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career. ’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.
But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.