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"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me."
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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."
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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"
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"Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off."
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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."
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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"
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"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."
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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
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"You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things."
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"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."
Men
"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row."
Death
"Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects."
Values
"Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage."
Education
"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
Civil rights
"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
Community
"I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years."
Family
"It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color."
People
"But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe."
Choice
"I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can."
Hope
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