It's great to be Black in Hollywood. When a Black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's Black.
I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
'All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me...' You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
