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" It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not. "

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" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "

" In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans. "

" Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be. "

" I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see. "

" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "

" I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.' "

" I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it. "

" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "

" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "

" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "

" That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious. "

" To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play. "

" I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. "

" As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. "

" I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span. "

" I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream. "

" Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS. "

" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "

" I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know? "

" I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. "

" My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. "

" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "

" Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. "

" I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. "

" I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera. "

" I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. "

" I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' "

" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "

" I like to show the grey area in all my characters. "

" I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. "