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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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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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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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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
Advantage Everywhere Happens Nigeria
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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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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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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 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 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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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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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire Fellow
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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 to hold leaders accountable.

Accountable Hold How Leaders
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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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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Be Happy Choice Choose Happy
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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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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

About Behind Cares Else
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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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'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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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 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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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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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Coming Hard
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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