Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.
Everybody needs a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.
I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time.
I’ve always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I’ve always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
When you create art, the world has to wait.
Life is lived on the edge.
I want the world to be better because I was here.
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.
There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?
The first step is you have to say that you can.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
You want something? Go get it.
I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
Your words and thoughts have physical power.
Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don’t like that image.
Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.
I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.
As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.