"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."

American, Dignity, Pride, Race

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"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

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"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."

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"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

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"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

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"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."

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"Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep."

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"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

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"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

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"I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go."

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"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."

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"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

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"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."

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