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" The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?' "

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" 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. "

" When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. "

" The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier. "

" Voting is an individual, personal thing. "

" I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. "

" Gabrielle Union is my best friend. "

" Roles make the actor. "

" Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream. "

" 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. "

" Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. "

" I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with. "

" Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life. "

" 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. "