Quotes from Hill Harper

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

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

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do.

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.