Orlando Jones

“Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.”

“Sometimes I'm more inspired by stuff that tells a story and less inspired by stuff that's not a natural extension of what I'm already doing.”

“I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.”

“There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very interesting guy who would literally rent a passenger van and would take the poor kids from the ghettos and black neighborhoods down to the sporting goods store and just spend money. Buy them whatever they want.”

“Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.”

“You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.”

“Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?”

“Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.”

“I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.”