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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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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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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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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Basketball Besides Game Gave
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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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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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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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Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Being Definitely Fast Grow
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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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I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Always Better Correct Day
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I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Am Anybody Basketball Because
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In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Days Fourth Grade Missed
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Express Gratitude Forget Appreciation
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Enemy Truth Lie Dishonest
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Victory Thousand Fathers Defeat
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others

Tolerance Lack Commitment Belief
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History Relentless Present Past
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Modern Skeptics Entrust Minds
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Gone Down Several Paths
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nations Wishes Well Price
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Prefer World Law World
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

My Father Raised Me
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man Problems Solved Destiny
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If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.

If We Can Believe
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Man Die Nations Fall
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

I Describe Myself Big
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Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Nothing I Am Doing
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I'm confident with my ability.

Ability Confident
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Anyone Beat Before Cool
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Defeat Exist Interested Not Interested
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Aching Deny Doomed Free
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Agenda Anyone Campaign Clear
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Coach Excellent Football Football Team
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Best Block Deadline Getting
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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I felt your response was ill -timed, knowing those leaders were mourning. I apologize if it came out wrongly, or rudely.

Response Leaders Apologize Wrong
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Love no dey shy. I said it

Love Dey Shy
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Our lives are like these footprints. One day the tide will come. May we live a meaningful life and be blessed with children that will bless the world.

Lives Footprints Meaningful Bless
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

View Each Gain Created
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I am part of this country that will keep speaking the obvious ways life can be made better for us all.

Country Keep Speaking Life
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Children Future One Present
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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Fela sing tire, we don talk tire. We all know the issues. Talk no dey tire you?

Fela Sing Talk Don
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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