I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.