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" I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.' "

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" I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring. "

" 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two. "

" Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. "

" When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.' "

" I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot. "

" Women are amazing lovers. "

" That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else. "

" I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now. "

" I was definitely a Daddy's boy. "

" I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. "

" I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor. "

" To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off. "

" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "

" I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans. "

" Women are so necessary for us in terms of support. "

" I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more. "

" I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles. "

" I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. "

" When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses. "

" I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. "

" I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper. "

" People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.' "

" I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house. "

" There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life. "

" I think what's most important is family. "

" As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it. "

" If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind. "

" I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up. "

" I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting. "