"Simple things don't interest me."

"I don't think any artist, before they go on writing or painting or creating a music piece or whatever, think, 'Oh people would like it, people would not like it.' Of course it is in the back of your mind because you respect your audience and you want them to connect with what you're doing. Liking or not liking, it's just too superficial, you know?"

"My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another."

"My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature."

"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't."

"One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."

"I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment."

"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."