is far too easy for us to base our claims to God on our own Christian religiosity and our church commitment, and in so doing utterly to misunderstand and distort the Christian idea.

It's hard for most of us to accept that we are nine parts microbe and only one part human, at least as far as a count of our cells goes.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.' 'I don't remember that.' 'The history books gloss it over.

I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. Curran was stout and so was your father. It's easier to feel at home with a fat man.