"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

People, Children, Job

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"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."

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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

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