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I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: About Around Because Casually Hear Just Life Living Me Mind My Life People People Say Place Say Saying State Term Think Wayne I Think

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I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: America Around Because Black Come Enough Feel Going Had Made Other People Say Then They Say Too Wrestle You

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Big up Samuel L. Jackson, because here's a guy who has broken down doors.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Because Big Broken Doors Down Guy Here Jackson Samuel Up Who

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I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was like, 'I don't know this.' I have no idea, and I don't pretend to, but now I'm more aware of it because I've engaged on that frequency.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: About Aware Beauty Because Book Engaged Frequency How Idea Know Like Listened Messing More Myth No Idea Now Pretend Society Standards Western Women

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'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Because Everyone Experience Had Like Our Skins Special Tight Together

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I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Accurate Because Diverse Just Package Stories Things Think Weird I Think

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I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Because Diverse Life Saying Standard Think Ultimately Way White Word I Think Pc

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I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Because Black Did Fact Game Industry Lose Man Own Panther Play Why Widows

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A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Because Coping Depressing Earth Enter Funniest Lot Mechanism Most People Situations Time Time People

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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

~Daniel Keys Moran

Topics: American American Public Anything Because Before Believe Believed Both Everything Extremes Hurt Prevent Public Recognizing Since Then Those Truth Us Watergate Whole

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