Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.

My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.

When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

War is an abstraction.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.