If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

I'm a great jazz fan.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.