The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me. . . I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.
We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.
There can be miracles when you believe.
To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.