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" Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people. "

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" I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls. "

" When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years. "

" Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people. "

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" I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on. "

" The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating. "

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" I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three years, and you're taught clowning and mask work. "

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" Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking. "

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