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‟ When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.
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‟ What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It's not just the award. It's what it's going to mean to young girls - young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.
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‟ I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.
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‟ Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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‟ What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.
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‟ That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.
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‟ Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.
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‟ I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.
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‟ And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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‟ I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.
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