Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

The fool will teach ere he has learned, and his very servants scorn him.

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.