Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.
My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
If it wasn't for my trainer - who comes looking for me three times a week before 7 A. M. - I wouldn't get my butt out of bed and into the gym. There are many mornings when I think about faking a sprained ankle, but I just put it out of my head and make myself go.
I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock. ' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.
The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?