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" I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. "

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" I feel like I died as a child. "

" Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them. "

" I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore. "

" My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. "

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" The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child. "

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" What I've learned is you treat women right. "

" My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. "

" Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help. "

" There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. "

" Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day. "

" I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. "

" I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not. "

" It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. "

" There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story. "

" What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow. "

" My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. "

" For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing. "

" I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences. "

" I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people. "

" I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth. "

" I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing. "

" You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in. "

" I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome. "