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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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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Address American Future Must
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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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 love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Being Better Comfort Comfort Zone
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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 love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Doing Finding Grow How
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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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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Aware Constitute Groups Idea
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened
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It takes time for people to understand how to hold leaders accountable.

Accountable Hold How Leaders
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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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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

Action Action Movie Come Cool
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

Books Made Over Puzzle
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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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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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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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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Describe Else Idea Mad
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Acid Distance Like Memories
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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 try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Comedy Funny Little Play
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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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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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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 think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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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 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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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Certainly Fan Helped Huge
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

Building Ensemble I Love Love
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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 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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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Broadway Few First Landing
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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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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Acting Angry Get Go
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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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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