For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash.

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.