I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that fundamentally all Democrats are Democrats.

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.