I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Life is lived on the edge.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.