Remember that credit is money.
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.