The absence of him is everywhere I look.
One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.
I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that America is now engaging with how we have come to this point.
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA. It is an extension of that legacy, and that's not going to start to diminish until black people have a new sense of themselves that isn't tied to slavery and feeling inferior. I think the church can be instrumental in that, in terms of repentance, reconciliation and just being more embracing of each other - not just on Sunday, but in life generally.
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.
You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.
We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice,. . . The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage. . . . This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.
The camera basically is a license to explore.