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Boris Kodjoe

"Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone."

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"Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone."

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Donna Grant

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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Donna Grant

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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Donna Grant

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Boris Kodjoe
"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle."

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Boris Kodjoe
"I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from."

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Boris Kodjoe
"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."

Life

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Boris Kodjoe
"Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior."

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Boris Kodjoe
"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."

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Boris Kodjoe
"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter."

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Boris Kodjoe
"The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists."

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Boris Kodjoe
"Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore."

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Boris Kodjoe
"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."

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Boris Kodjoe
"I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently."

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