I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.

I feel responsible to know what I'm talking about and to actually express myself the way I choose. We have to put those messages on a global platform period. That, to me, is inspiring.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

I try to be as intentional as possible.

People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.

As a young, Black man, I absolutely feel responsible.

Everyone has a platform, so if we could just use that and combine what we have and know -we talk about it in private - we might as well talk about it [publicly] together.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement.

I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.

I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.