17 quotes
This is a magical place, a place where the dynamics of positive and negative seem to exist in extremes.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
If anyone doesn't think there's a place for women in tech, it's completely demolished in this movie.
c|net interview (2017)
Sometimes you need to feel the pain and sting of defeat to activate the real passion and purpose that God predestined inside of you.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
Right now I urge you in your breath, in your eyes, in your consciousness, invest in the importance of this moment and cherish it.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
Throughout ancient times, institutions of learning have been built on top of hills to convey that great struggle is required to achieve degrees of enlightenment.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
It's a utopia. It's not just an African utopia — it's a utopia. It's a place where spirituality and science do not war with each other.
c|net interview (2017)
Every black actor has looked at Denzel and said they wanted to be Denzel.
GQ Roundtable (2014)
What I would love to see is for technology and nature to find a way to merge.
c|net interview (2017)
I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you — it's about you needing to love people, you needing to have people that you can ert[sic — (perhaps "exert")] that energy toward. You have to have those people.
GQ Roundtable (2014)
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
GQ Roundtable (2014)
I don’t know what your future is, but if you are willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory then you will not regret it.
Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
If you’re working as a writer, that doesn’t necessarily take you down the role of being a movie star.
GQ interview (2014)
Sometimes there's no right answer. Everybody has heard the line, 'It's hard for a good man to be king.' I think there's a sense of all the complications of being a good leader.
c|net interview (2017)
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
c|net interview (2017)
This movie is about how you use power.
c|net interview (2017)
When they call you and say, "So you want to play Black Panther?" if you know what Black Panther is, there's no way in the world you're going to say no because there's a lot of opportunity for magic to happen.
c|net interview (2017)