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" I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here. "
David Alan Grier
Look
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Eye
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" I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice. "
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" I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. "
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" My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. "
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" My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. "
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" America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live. "
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" Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror. "
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" To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. "
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" Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out. "
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" A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great. "
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" 'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. "
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People
Middle
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" I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman. "
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" I, myself, identify myself as a heathen. "
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" I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed. "
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" I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. "
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Know
You
" Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself. "
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Tell
" I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me. "
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Day
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