"I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them."

“The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.”

“I have the lived experience of a Black man in America, also raising Black kids, but I also have the lived experience of being a responsible person who is responsible for the resourcing and the outfitting of a law enforcement agency.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.”

“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.”

Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science Â… it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”

“The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.”

“The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players”

“The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.”