A biography for Jonathan Majorshasn’t been written yet.
“You know, I'm a 6-foot Black man, and I'm built the way I'm built. Driving is a very stress-inducing thing for me to do.”
“In cinema, the hero is not the one who sacrifices their body always, but the person who sacrifices their heart. They allow their heart to break so everyone else can stay intact.”
“I grew up in the Dallas Metroplex. But I spent a lot of time in Waco and then in small towns down there with my grandma and then in Killeen and in Riesel.”
“As a father, my job is to protect, and keep things away from interfering with her imagination because that's her voice.”
“We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.”
“As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.”
“In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.”
“I'm a drifter. I go where the wind blows.”
“There's an anecdote that's really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop.”
“I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.”
“There comes a point in everybody's life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.”
“If you're not on set, if you're not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That's what you're getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor.”
“There's a certain mentality that military brats have, you know? Especially if you're a male, and your father's the one in the forces.”
“I was told by the world for a long time that I was angry, or that I was sad.”
“You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.”
“We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it's purported to be. Black lives are unknown in some pla'ces.”
“If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.”
“Sometimes the world didn't feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.”
“As a Black man, you are living in a place and you are constantly unsafe. And we go to these bastions of safety: Harlem, you can call that a haven; the South Side of Chicago, you can call that haven; Detroit, you can call that haven.”
“I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.”