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"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is."
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"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate."
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
"Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood."
"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."
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"I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process."
"Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa."
"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems."
"Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through."
"Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it."
"You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it."
"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."
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