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" 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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" My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision. "

" 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. "

" I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater. "

" Gabrielle Union is my best friend. "

" 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. "

" We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult. "

" I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. "

" Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. "

" We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots. "

" We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own. "

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

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

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