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" I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place. "

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" I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. "

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