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You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.
For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.
Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.
With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.
There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.
I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.
I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.
I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.
Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.
When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.
I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.
When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?
As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.
It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.
I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.
Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.
There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.
Yes, it's hard to stay in shape, but it's also hard to raise kids. That doesn't mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.
My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens.