I think you can only be outgoing when the person you're talking to is outgoing. I can be outgoing if I want to be, if you meet me halfway.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.

You never see girls running after engineers.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.