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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.
- Complicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
- Fears
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voting is an individual, personal thing.
- Cancer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.
- Colon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.
- Best Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gabrielle Union is my best friend.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have justice unless you have truth.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roles make the actor.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
- Bad Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.
- Desiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020