You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.