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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny. "

" If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. "

" When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move. "

" Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste. "

" 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. "

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

" Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing. "

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

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

" The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part. "

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