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Harper graduated from Brown University as well as Harvard Law School, but he chose to become an actor. “Yeah, I do a profession where you don’t even need a high school diploma to do it, but I believe that the way I go about doing what I do is informed by my education,” the actor told The Madd Hatta Morning Show. “So that applies for everybody. That’s why I’m a huge education proponent.”

“I believe that school and education is about foundation-building,” he explained. “Education buys you options.” He added that people think they have to go to school for something specific, but in reality education can give them more options to do whatever they want. “Go to school to get your mind right,” he said. “Go to school to elevate your thoughts so you have more options.”

The actor described the experience of President Barack Obama as an example of someone who used education to elevate himself. Harper and Obama attended Harvard together, but they took different paths to get there. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life,” Harper explained. “I just knew that I wanted to learn more, so I went to grad school for that.”

The future president, on the other hand, returned to school after years of community organizing. “He came with a different purpose,” Harper said. “He came knowing exactly what he wanted to do, knowing that he wanted to build his foundation educationally.”

“He made the choice that most of us wouldn’t be able to make,” the actor continued, explaining that many people express the desire to return to school but never do it. “If you have an intuition that you haven’t finished school, and you’ve said for the last five [or] ten years, ‘I’m gonna go back’—go ahead and go back. It’s worth it.”

Source: The Madd Hatta Morning Show. Thanks to perlnoir from TalkCSI for the link.

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“Anika Noni Rose and Hill Harper are a part of a new generation of Hollywood that embodies the spirit of the Image Awards,” said NAACP Hollywood Bureau Executive Director Vicangelo Bulluck. “Their talent and success is inspiring and adds a sophisticated glamour to the evening.” The awards will be broadcast live on the Fox network.

Perrineau will play a death row inmate who is forced to fight for his life during a prison riot, Ausiello reports. Dr Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) will also be stuck in the middle of the riot, and Perrineau’s character will reveal a shocking secret about his—and Hawkes’—past.

According to CSI Files sources, Perrineau will be appearing in the nineteenth episode of New York, which is tentatively titled “Redemptio”. Perrineau’s character contacts Hawkes and asks him to visit before his execution. The inmate has a confession to make about a member of Hawkes’ family. “Redemptio” will also feature the return of a familiar villain: Shane Casey (Edward Furlong), who was last seen in “Raising Shane” during New York’s third season, is in the same prison as Perrineau’s character. In “Flag on the Play” earlier this season, it was revealed that Shane’s fingerprints were on Danny Messer’s (Carmine Giovinazzo) stolen dog tags—meaning he had something to do with the theft of Danny’s police badge in “Criminal Justice”.

“Redemptio” is scheduled to air in April.