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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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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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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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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

America Is Decidedly Racial
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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 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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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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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 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 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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No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Entirely Given No-One Really
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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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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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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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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Acid Distance Like Memories
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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 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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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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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

Crazy Eyes Funny Funny Thing
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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 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 love physicality. I love movement very much.

I Love Love Movement Much
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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 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 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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Actor Going Good Good Movie
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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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