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" You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor. "

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" If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness. "

" When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.' "

" I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable. "

" You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically. "

" I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting. "

" I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now. "

" I know that Donald Trump is a smart man. "

" Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life. "

" The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors. "

" I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway. "

" If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell. "

" I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time. "

" That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else. "

" I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me. "

" Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car. "

" It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week. "

" My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it. "

" Women are amazing lovers. "

" Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful. "

" I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to. "

" On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol. "

" People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.' "

" That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete. "

" As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. "

" Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. "

" I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.' "

" As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it. "

" I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. "

" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "

" I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day. "