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" I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first. "

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" Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks. "

" You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will. "

" I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know? "

" 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. "

" There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better. "

" I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.' "

" 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. "

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

" If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department. "

" The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first. "

" I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women. "

" I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. "

" Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism. "

" I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure. "

" I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares. "

" You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. "

" My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. "

" You can't have justice unless you have truth. "

" My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians. "

" Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it. "

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

" I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling. "

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

" Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own. "

" At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance. "

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

" 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. "

" My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. "