Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

Spirit is strength.

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.