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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

America Is Decidedly Racial
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Address American Future Must
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I've been writing since I was really young.

Been Really Since Writing
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

Females I Love Incredibly Industry
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
Because Fiction Freedom Gives
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Africa Been Broad Etc
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Entirely Given No-One Really
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

About Achieve Be Happy Earth
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Almost Anyway Bit Business
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Consistent Else General Idea
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Always Being Certain Peace
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Abnormal Any Each Every
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

About Comfort Drop Get
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
Always Bond Develops Family
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

Able Blue Days Get
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Cast Gotten I Love Love
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Brain Build Character Close
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
Fake Found Need Officially
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Assimilate Because Children Different
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I love physicality. I love movement very much.

I Love Love Movement Much
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Family Figure How Integral
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Allowed Because Could Hostess
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Always Anniversary Before Gave
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Capitalism Fascism Plus Plus
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Depends Difficult Get His
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
Bottom Dealing Deck Fate
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Bit Bite He Helped
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Fact Like Only Out
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

After Again Along Always
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
Balls Keep Man Meet
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And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Always Even Flirt Good
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Anything Became Did Die
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Chickens Even Farm Fun
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Art Borrow Everything Except
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Accomplish Actually Believe Could
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Rather Strive Success Value
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Badly Black Does Doing
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Along Am Becomes Blessed
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