She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.

There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

Death is very, very terminal.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.