Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.