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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

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Think, Some, Still, Spite

There's something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, 'We're just shooting. This is just a scene; we're making a movie here,' it's very unsettling.

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Behind, Here, Very, Surreal

My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.

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Vibe, Sophisticated, Very, Spoken Word

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.

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Been, Shut, Trump, Spoken Word

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

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Television, Audience, Other, African-American

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.

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Own, Use, Emulate, Joey

I think one of the greatest advantages we had on the show growing up was being exposed to Mr. Cosby - being exposed to his work ethic, being exposed to how he handles the job of celebrity and living in the public eye... I think that all had a real significant impact.

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Celebrity, Show, I Think, Public Eye

When we've had images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color, we've always had 'The Cosby Show' to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that kinda leaves us not in a great place in terms of having the wide scope of the images of people of color.

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Color, Fact, Great Place, Perpetuate

What's interesting is, say, the O.J. trial and when the verdict came out, and there were people who celebrated, and there were people who thought that he's guilty, and it's a crime. Those reactions tend to be filtered through our own experiences.

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Thought, Own, Through, Verdict

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

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Own, Through, Things, Filter

But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.

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Touched, Standard, Sets, Cosby

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

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Very, Though, Mr, Cosby

The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. What he's done for comedy and television has been legendary and history-making. What he's done for the black community and education has been invaluable. That's the Bill Cosby I know.

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Education, Been, Invaluable, Cosby

I have accepted that even when Mr. Cosby is long gone, I will still get asked about him.

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Will, Still, Mr, Cosby

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

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Caught, Been, TV, OK

I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron.

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Listening, Always, Been, Womb

Our differences - in race, sexual preference, economic - have always been used as distractions to keep us divided. We get so wrapped up in our own stories that we can't hear each other.

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Always, Other, Been, Economic

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

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Work, Career, Embarrassed, Cringe

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

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Jazz, Named, Main, Fender

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

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Seriously, Always, Being, Transition

I used to say that it won't be until I'm 40, 50, 60 years old, still working consistently, will I be able to look back on my career and say, 'Wow, I have been successful.'

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Career, Been, Still, Wow

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

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Night, Discovered, Before, Beautiful Thing

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer.

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Audience, Like, Though, Hip-Hop

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

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Journey, Living, Breathing, Every Night

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

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Values, Desperate, Show, Conflict

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.

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Love, Play, Bad, Plus

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

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Career, Been, Turned, Directing

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.

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Career, Been, November, Directing

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

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Wife, Needs, Been, Herself

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

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Career, Never, Wanted, Chose

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