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" Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well. "

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" There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there. "

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" When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line. "

" You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do. "

" On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy. "

" You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. "

" Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact. "

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" We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded. "

" I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. "

" There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter. "

" Gabrielle Union is my best friend. "

" We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. "

" The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. "

" Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life. "

" Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. "

" The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term. "

" You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? "

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" In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. "

" Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye. "

" People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. "

" Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar. "

" For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur. "

Hill Harper

You

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" I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. "

" My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track. "

" People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. "

" On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps. "

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" So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love. "

" Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real. "

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" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "

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" With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me. "

" Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. "