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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

Omari Hardwick

Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

Tags: life, people, amazing people

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

Omari Hardwick

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

Tags: powerful, flaws, person

About Author
Omari Latif Hardwick (born January 9, 1974) is an American actor known for his starring role as James "Ghost" St. Patrick, the protagonist of Starz's Power and his role as Vanderohe in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (2021). He is also known for his roles in Saved and Dark Blue, in Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Kick-Ass (2010), Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010) and as Andre in BET Network's Being Mary Jane.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy beca...

Omari Hardwick

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy beca...

Tags: life, food, giving

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

Omari Hardwick

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

Tags: man, past, problem

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bi...

Omari Hardwick

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bi...

Tags: time, home, money

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the Uni...

Omari Hardwick

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the Uni...

Tags: football, school, poetry

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences...

Omari Hardwick

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences...

Tags: color, think, you

Shoes make an outfit they're like rims for a car.

Omari Hardwick

Shoes make an outfit they're like rims for a car.

Tags: shoes, outfit, like

You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the bes...

Omari Hardwick

You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the bes...

Tags: beautiful, good, best

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Tags: bridge, acting, career

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet an...

Omari Hardwick

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet an...

Tags: father, artist, kids

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

Omari Hardwick

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

Tags: bike, trying, easy

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

Omari Hardwick

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

Tags: me, athlete, way

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

Omari Hardwick

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

Tags: i am, foundation, better