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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."

"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"

"I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist."

"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."

"It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president."

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."

"You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them."

"And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense."

"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."

"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad."

"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work."

"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect."

"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him."

"We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks."
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