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Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.