Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

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.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.