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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Actor Anything Black Control
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Account AIDS Angry Celebrity
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

About Acting Also Dark
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Anything Back Cannot Does
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Around Built Every Every Single Thing
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

About Anything Be A Man Big
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

About Arts Chance Everything
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Going Mend Month Next
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Always Cannot Laughing Man
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Considerable Enhanced Foolish Inconvenience
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Barking Cost Economist Employing
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Anything Conceal Knowing Misfortune
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Been Does Has-Been Having
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One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Adult Fear Father Realize
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Busy Life Quick Seems
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I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Complicated Humans Happy Loyal
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Comfort Home Like Nothing
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Anxiety Creativity Need Out
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

Country Death Human Land
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Acting Nice Open People
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Nature Time Human Back
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Almost Always Anything Before
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

Life Nothing Rich Wrong
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Breathing Cliche Day Down
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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Being Best Celebrity Cheating
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I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Doing Aside Better Anybody
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Nothing stop ideas anchored on human capital development.

Nothing stop Anchored Human capital
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Snoring Interesting Respect Privacy
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I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

About Feel Freedom Gives
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Accused Been Being Constantly
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

About Describe How Inside
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Always Down OK Outrageous
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Because Black Feel Know
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Ambition Around Been Desperate
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Apart Flaws Great Irony
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Believe Change Dialogue Doing
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Whole secret Life Profoundly Thousand things
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Playthings Our fear Physical pain
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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Modern times Everything Create controversy
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