When You Are On Assignment, You Stick To The Facts, Limit Your Vision, And Often CUT Out The Most Revealing MATERIAL. There Is No Texture, No Shades Of Gray. In FICTION, You Can Bring The Reader On The Perilous Journey With Your Characters As They DISCOVER That War Is More Like A Wilderness Of Mirrors, Full Of DANGER And Uncertainty.

When I Begin To Write A STORY, I Usually Know How Things Will End. It's The Journey TOWARD That Point I MUST Discover. The PROCESS Is Sometimes Painful, But ALSO Exciting.

I'm An American CHEF. I'm American. I Live Here. I LOVE Being Here. But, Of COURSE, It Is Different. A BLACK MAN's Journey Is Different.

When You're Guest-starring On Another Show, It Really Requires You To JUMP Through Hoops In A WAY, Because You're Servicing The Stories Of The Main Characters. You Have To Be Able To Portray A Lot Of Different Elements. You Show Up And GET On BOARD And Get On Their Journey; You Have To Be Flexible As To What They Need For The Role.

I LIKE It When A SCRIPT SHOWS You Something New, And You Can LEARN Something Through The Journey Of A Film Rather Than Being Told Things You Already Know.

I Want People To UNDERSTAND My JOURNEY And To Be Inspired By That. You Can Be An Immigrant, And If You WORK Really HARD, You Can Have Your Own Restaurant.

You Cannot GO FAR ALONE. You ENJOY Your Journey Better If You Have PEOPLE By Your Side.

The JOURNEY Of A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS With One STEP.

Being Innovative In Your PHILANTHROPY Allows You To STRIDE FORWARD In Your Giving Journey; You Can MARRY Your Mind And Heart To TURN Charity Into Lasting Impact; And You Can Become More Ambitious In Your Giving.

I Didn't Have A Business Degree. I Didn't Have EXPERIENCE To Work In Somebody Else's Office. I NEVER Built Or RAN A Department. So I Was On This Journey, And When The Time Came To Make A Decision, I Was Just Going With My GUT.