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• ‟ When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

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• ‟ I tell my children, some people can be more talented than you. Some people can be faster, stronger, but there is never a reason for anyone to outwork you.

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• ‟ I grew up around people with a bunch of serious problems.

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• ‟ I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

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• ‟ I think that people in America, unfortunately or fortunately, are just discovering different aspects of the humanity of African-American people. And so I think with that discovery comes, 'Oh, you could be a superhero; you could be president or whatever it is that we thought you couldn't be.'

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• ‟ I came up seeing what a lot of young brothers see in this world, and you learn to deal with people with a long handle spoon in order to survive.

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• ‟ It's less about Trump and more about the people... If the American people are willing to elect someone like that president, then that's more of a problem.

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