Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this. "
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.
The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.
The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
You have to reinvent yourself.
Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. . . . How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?