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There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you know, Sammy Davis is going to be on 'All in the Family' tonight! Let's go check it out!' It was a big, big thing.
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I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity, who did his job to the best of his ability, and I want to tell him thank you. Thank you for enduring hatred from his own community, for being ostracized and called an Uncle Tom and a sellout.
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When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.
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I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour - and watched 72 episodes in ten days.
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I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.
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I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.
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I never assume people are going to recognize me.
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I've been able to pay the bills. I've been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.
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I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.
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Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.
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In the gym, people's enthusiasm tends to get the best of them. They realize this is their opportunity to say hello or that they love my work... It doesn't matter how profusely you're sweating.
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I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.
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