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My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
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What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
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... books are men of higher stature ...
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I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.
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I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
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I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
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I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
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The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.
