Everyone you talk to in his unit say that he was an excellent soldier and he was also very well liked among his comrades, so I get comfort knowing he had two families, us back here on the home front and also the soldiers.

I just want to say that I think no matter how you feel about Iraq or any of that situation, you need to pay your respects to our men and women in arms because they're putting their lives on the line every day and they're in harm's way and they deserve our respect - not just when they die but when they're alive.

They're putting their lives on the line every day. They're in harm's way and they deserve our respect, not just when they die, but when they're alive.

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.