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It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Able Also Become Beings Black Blanks Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Country Does Evolved Fill Fully Human Human Beings Important Journey Know Means Movement Must Order Part Particularly People Rights Rights Movement Themselves Understand Us Who Youth Youths

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I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Being Bush Calling Constantly Find Forest Growing Helped Identity Kids Like Little Me Tease Thought Try Would

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I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Able About Adult Arts Because Central Children Cinema Cultures Exposure Fundamental Gain Grow Grow Up Individuals Learn Lives Much Never Our Our Lives Own Parents Stories Teach Them Think Through Tool Truths Up Use Values View World I Think

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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Alike Always Between Change Communities Connection Deep Peace People Real Same See Starts True Within I See

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It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Basic Basic Needs Child Common Course Every Hands Humanity Man Met Most Needs Person Power Rests Shape Those Toward Well Where Woman World

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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Always Believe Stand Stand Up Up Want I Believe

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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Away Core Ether Everybody Exists Experiences Find Get God Humanity Know Light Mean Part Pull Searching Thing Try Until Us Work You

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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: East Family Father Go Just Mother Out Preacher Reunion Side Teacher Ten Texas Way

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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Abhorrent Evil Explain Just Me Somebody You

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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Acting College College Football Football Obsessive Opera Same Singing Them Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 15th, 1961

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