The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook about how I saw that communication truth and trust are at the heart of power.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty like Antony not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.