A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren’t powerful about them at all.
I really had a problem with being ‘the man.’ I’m past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
I’m a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Some of the most amazing people I’ve met in life are cops.
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it’s very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Shoes make an outfit they’re like rims for a car.
You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald’s. That’s probably the best I can do romantically.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
That’s the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.