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" 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. "

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" Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' "

Hill Harper

Youth

Mirror

Myself

" When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing. "

Hill Harper

Book

Amazing

" Voting is an individual, personal thing. "

" I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I? "

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

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

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

Hill Harper

President

January

" What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world. "

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

" 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. "

" 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've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "

Hill Harper

Practice

Child

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

" I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute. "

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

" 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. "

" Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time. "

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

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

" The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. "