"I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to."

“That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.”

“I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Faith is not contrary to reason.”

Source : Sherwood Eddy (1934). “A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy”

“I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.”

“I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.”

“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”

“We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.”

Source : Edwin Muir (1956). “One foot in Eden”

“There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 147), 1895.