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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Because Begin Does Effectively
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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Before Came Leave Need
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Example Gandhi Leadership Power
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

Africa Centuries Decades Economy
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Action Any Begin Believe
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Day Dreamer Dreams Great
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Appealed Box Burning Cap
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

About Best BestWork Day
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With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Amount Children Difficult IWasRaised
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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
Bad BadMood Father Lot
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Spent Pursuing Classical
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Studying Black Concert Pianists
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As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Bathroom Crying Future Go
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In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Bands High HighSchool Lot
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Big BigTime Childhood Coming
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None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Anybody Feelings Hurt None
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I was really good at being a bad guy.

Bad Bad Guy Being Good
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I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Enough First Fortunate Had
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My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Everybody Hard I Think Needs
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Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.

Always Great Kind Me
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It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

Attire Brought Casual Clothes
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I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

Back Bad Blood Deal
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I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!
Always Been Best Could
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I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

Bad Bad Guy Being Good
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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Actor Become Comedian Excited
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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Day Get Growing GrowingUp
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Kept Sane Thing Myself
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Believe Races Quotes Color
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Happened Child Music Life
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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
Always Friends Had House
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Among Cannot Done Saying
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Children Crime Thing Waste
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Matter Poor Poverty Questions
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Anything He History Learn
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Became Because England Industrial
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

Agriculture Became Because Etc
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

America Exactly Exactly What Go
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Angry Anything Blaming Creativity
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Altar Beginning Bible Boy
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

About Been Classes Drama
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
Anonymous Dark Dark Hair Definitely
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