Andre Braugher Quotes

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

He who retreats lives longer.

Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.