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In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.

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My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

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When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action.

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David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.

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My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

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I have so much love for art.

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I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.

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I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.

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I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way.

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Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 8th, 1962

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