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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Humor

" You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

Hill Harper

Want

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by. "

" All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. "

" 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?' "

Hill Harper

Step

Life

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

Hill Harper

President

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

" 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 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Voting is an individual, personal 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. "

" I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. "

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

Hill Harper

Prisons

Iron

" 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. "

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

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

" Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter. "