You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.
My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.
Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.
Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.
Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.
On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'
