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The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.