Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“What's interesting is, say, the O.J. trial and when the verdict came out, and there were people who celebrated, and there were people who thought that he's guilty, and it's a crime. Those reactions tend to be filtered through our own experiences.”

“My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.”

“I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.”

“I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.”

“There's something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, 'We're just shooting. This is just a scene; we're making a movie here,' it's very unsettling.”

“I have accepted that even when Mr. Cosby is long gone, I will still get asked about him.”

“Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.”

“When we've had images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color, we've always had 'The Cosby Show' to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that kinda leaves us not in a great place in terms of having the wide scope of the images of people of color.”

“I don't belong to a motorcycle club, but I know a lot of guys who do. I ride with some guys who do.”

“I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.”

“The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.”

“I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.”

“People who feel under-appreciated sometimes make desperate moves.”

“Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.”

“Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.”

“When you're an independent artist, you need as much play or promotion as you can get.”

“I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.”

“My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.”

“I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron.”

“I was doing community theater since I was about nine.”