It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.
What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.
I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'
I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.
Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.
Gabrielle Union is my best friend.
You can't have justice unless you have truth.
When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.
You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.
Roles make the actor.
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
