Quotes from Hill Harper

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

Peaceful Warrior

Now this might get me into trouble but I'm just going to write it. Many of my most jaded female friends want a man who has already "arrived" and there's nothing wrong with that. However, I've noticed that if many of these women hold up a mirror to themselves, they would realize that they are still "works in progress," as well.

rejection is usually God's protection.

We are expecting less and demanding less, and those lower expectations are making us unfulfilled and taking us farther from each other.

We don't have to allow stereotypical notions or past experiences to immediately alter our personal future.

We make irrational and often destructive choices because we have given money and its pursuit too much value.

Honesty, trust, and friendship in a relationship are crucial, and no relationship can survive without them.

I don't want to sound cliché or corny or anything, but Black men and women have always been pitted against each other.We've been made to believe so many lies about each other, and that's why I think our loving each other, whether it's expressed through friendship or marriage or both, is a revolutionary act. It means that we're able to see and accept the truth in each other, and in ourselves.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.