"I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general."

“True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

“WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.”

“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

“Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.”

Source : "Here They Are Jayne Mansfield". Book by Raymond Strait, 1992.

“Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.”

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

“2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.”