Will Smith is one of Hollywood’s favorite actors, and one of the African American community’s most accomplished men in entertainment.Happy birthday to the star that brought laughter into our homes, action on the big screen, and inspiration to our ears. 

“The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, “Oh I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I can possibly continue.” You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have–with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.”-Will Smith

44 years of greatness. May you have many more!