General fiction is pretty MUCH about ways that people GET into PROBLEMS and screw their LIVES up. Science fiction is about EVERYTHING else.

It's FAMILY FIRST, and then EVERYTHING ELSE.

When I was a little bitty BOY, I was a fan of BOXING. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then EVERYTHING ELSE.

In the BEGINNING, there was NOISE. Noise begat RHYTHM, and rhythm begat EVERYTHING ELSE.

Your MIND is what MAKES EVERYTHING ELSE WORK.

You definitely want your kids to UNDERSTAND their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being BLACK. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be GOOD people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else FALLS into place.

Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the THINGS that SEEM LIKE personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the THING that allows us and empowers us to face everything ELSE.

Love yourself first and everything ELSE falls into LINE. You REALLY have to love yourself to get ANYTHING done in this world.

I never PLANNED to ACT in MALAYALAM. 'Yakshiyum Njanum' just happened and EVERYTHING else just followed.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my MEETINGS, my SKETCHES, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. PREPARE his LUNCH. I spend the afternoon with him.

My WIFE works HARDER than ANYONE else with the children around the house. I MAKE the money, sure, but she does everything else.