You hope he's learned something. I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women.

I really hope that the reading raises people's consciousness of domestic abuse and sexual assaults on women.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

The johns use and abuse these young women. And pimps -- you can call them slaveholders, the masters out in the field.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.