“It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.”
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
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Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
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