Critics Like To Build You Up, Tear

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.

Any Time You Talk About The Look Of The Film, It's Not Just The Director And The Director Of Photography. You Have To Include The Costume Designer And The Production Designer.

Everything I Do Is Always Scrutinised. But That's All I'll Say About That.

Any Film I Do Is Not Going To Change The Way Black Women Have Been Portrayed, Or Black People Have Been Portrayed, In Cinema Since The Days Of D.w. Griffith.

America Doesn't Have The Moral Right To Tell Other People What To Do. To Say The Whole World Has To Fall Into Line Is You-know-what. I Hope More People Will Rise Up.