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As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.

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When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

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Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

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I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

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Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

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It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

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I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

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Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 21st, 1979

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