I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.