Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

The best sermons are those that are lived.

Do you know what I think of when I remember him? I think: He was such a kid. He taught me how to swim when I was 4 and how to ride a bike. So when I think of Martin Luther King, I think of laughter. I think of the play and the fun.

I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.

I will never grow up. Everyone wants to tell me how to live my life.

To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That's the work that I'm really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.