If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

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.

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

There is no change without sacrifice.

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.