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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

Because Blessed Cast Ever
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Head Liberation Realize Sees
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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 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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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Family Go I Think Least
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Any Anything Express Feel
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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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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 come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Actor Come Entire Free
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Family Full Good Means
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Behind Breathing Camera Job
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Arts Athletic Because Boston
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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
Color Dream Energies Feel
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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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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Am Artist Course Entirely
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Acting After Because Care
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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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Food wey your family go eat no go make you poor

Food Family Wey Poor
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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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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 do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Accent Latin Mean Mexican
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Created Problems Same Solve
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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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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

America Any Cradle Domestic
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Curious Passionately Special Talent
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Amount Ever Prove Experiment
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It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

Show Time Whole Stronger
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Big Except Excitement Game
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

Borders Bring Dreams Jobs
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Smarts Stamina Cunning Intelligence
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We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.

Welfare Labor Country Work
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Always America Bottom Business
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Causes Family Important Involved
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Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

Bad Confidence Country Happening
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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Birth Certificate Imagination Live
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I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

Afford Care Closing Country
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People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Time Cards Deal Rid
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Among Considered Equivalent Father
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Back Been Cried Damaged
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Always American Away Deadly
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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Acknowledge America Apologize Being
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