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"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
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"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
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"I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived."
People


"I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women."
Men


"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
Father


"It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling."
Feelings


"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
Money


"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
Feet


"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
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"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
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"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."
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"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Life
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