I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.

Don't just view me as an actor.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.