I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.