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Music is very wide and there is no reason to limit ourselves to just a part of it.

Music Wide Reason Limit
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We are quick to sideline people, even when we really do not know about their reality and experiences.

Sideline People Reality Experiences
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Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Pain Sleep Angel Give
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Each new day is a blessing, not a guarantee. Stay humble and remember your place in this universe
New day Blessing Guarantee Universe
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bomb; the bombs are much bigger, So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. H has become a most ominous letter. It means something bigger if not something better.

All Atom Mean Letter
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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Everybody now wants to discover universal laws which will explain the structure and behavior of the nucleus of the atom. But actually our knowledge of the elementary particles that make up the nucleus is tiny. The situation calls for more modesty. We should first try to discover more about these elementary particles and about their laws. Then it will be the time for the major synthesis of what we really know, and the formulation of the universal law.

Universe Science Atom Knowledge
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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Science Modern Simple
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I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.

I Am Always Have
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When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

When Brought Home Percent
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

I Work Predominantly Tailors
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A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done.

Classic Man Distinguished Man
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I myself have been scrutinized by militaries police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

I Myself Have Been
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Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.

Ever Since Decision Robin
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Abject Acting Age Environment
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The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

Entitlement Feed Feeds Power
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I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Could Feel Life Like
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I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.

Age Arm Become Color
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If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I'm very toned. I'm like every other woman. I'd love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I'm not, I'm OK with that, too. I'm good as long as I'm healthy.

Every Five Get Good
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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

After Battles Better Career
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I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

Any Attention Because Being
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I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.
Definitely Family Family Life Happy
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I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration.

Great Great Work Inspiration Love
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

About Because Comedian Death
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Because Character Characters Craft
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Characters Cord Cut Own
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even Feel Get He
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Exceed Flies Flowers Me
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Always Finds Hands Idle
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Acquire Come Depart Down
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I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

Able Dash Field ILove
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Art Artistic Balance Both
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Afford Because Fight Game
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I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Distracted Easily Get Joke
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Bunch Comedy Could Funny
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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Friends Get Hear Honestly
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

After Better Could Focus
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But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

About Any Being Ever
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And winning is a huge thing for me

Huge HugeThing Me Thing
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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Basketball Championships Every Fulfilled
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