Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.