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" If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. "

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" You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. "

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" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "

" When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them. "

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" When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. "

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