"We’re all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship."

“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.”

Source : "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

“August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.”

Source : "The day the world went mad" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

“You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.”

Source : William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

“I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.”

Source : "Michael Jai White on martial arts, heavy makeup, and starting out with Troma". Interview with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, film.avclub.com. May 13, 2015.

“I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.”

Source : "Rep. Southerland, Rep. Van Hollen on the 'war on poverty'; What does an unstable Iraq mean for US security?". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2014.

“I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.”

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

“And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.”