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" If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell. "

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" My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it. "

" I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting. "

" Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land. "

" 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. "

" You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it. "

" We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me. "

" As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other. "

" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "

" The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be. "

" Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car. "

" I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable. "

" A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all. "

" It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. "

" I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to. "

" You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically. "

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

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

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

" Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it. "

" I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day. "

" 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. "

" On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol. "

" Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful. "

" I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama. "

" Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.' "

" 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. "

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

" As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. "

" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "

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