115 Quotes by common

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

I've met kids who haven't had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

Your body is you. That's your temple. So, eating wisely helps you function for the day. If you want to look good and feel good, you gotta eat good. What you put into your temple, man, is very important. I learned that later on in life, but I started putting that into practice. I'm not perfect in my eating. I just try to live healthily, and to take care of myself so that during this lifetime I can live good.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.

Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it.

It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture