A painting by Tamara de Lempicka.

A matt grey Range Rover. It’s been rebadged, so instead of Range Rover it says Range Rylan.

Legal advice. It was worth it. Know your rights.

I went overboard on the money I invested in the production of Allegiance. It did not return, but it was fulfilling that I was able to tell a story that’s dear.

I wanted to know. I asked a lot of questions and she would say, "Read, read."…So she inspired me a great deal.

Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.

You must find a way to get in the way, you must find a way to get into trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble.

I would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, 'Why?'. And they would say, 'That's the way it is. Don't get in the way, don't get in trouble!'

More than anything else, I had to combat the barriers, and we tore down those barriers. I just had to set a sail against the wind, those strong winds, to end segregation and racial discrimination, but somehow, in some way, I didn’t let those barriers keep me down.

I never thought that we would fail or that I would fail. I knew from time to time we may make some blunders. We may make some mistakes, but we were not going to fail.