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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
- Constellations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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- Nov 07, 2020