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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."
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"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."

"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way."

"My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling."

"It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson."

"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."

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"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."

"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."

"In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."

"They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together."

"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."

"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"

"In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly."

"I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?"
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