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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

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I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.

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I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 18th, 1979

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