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Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that. '

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Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

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I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

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I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

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You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

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