I try to be as realistic as possible.

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 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.

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

Experience is by industry achiev'd, And perfected by the swift course of time.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.