All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

History takes time. History makes memory.