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" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "
Lee Daniels
Me
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" I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it. "
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" I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think. "
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" I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' "
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" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "
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" My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. "
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" When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. "
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" I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual. "
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" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "
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" Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. "
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" It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not. "
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" I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. "
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" To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play. "
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World
" I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. "
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" In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans. "
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" I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. "
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" I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. "
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