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Mandela Is This Extraordinary Individual Who Can Inspire The World. Instead Of Wanting Revenge After Being Brutalized, He Showed The World How To Forgive.

I Wanted To Play Roles Which Offered New Ways Of Viewing Black Women And Black People In General- And I Have Done That. And I Have Always, Whether I Needed To Pay The Rent Or Not, I've Always Turned Down Roles Which I Thought Were Stereotypical. And So When I Look At My Body Of Work In That Respect, I Am Really Happy. Because I Feel My Work Does Say Something Positive And That Was What I Always Set Out To Do.

As A Society We Should Be Encouraging People Out Of The Debt-culture Mindset, Not Promoting It.

One Of The Saddest Aspects For Me About Filming In South Africa Was That The Real Inequalities Are Still Very Much In Place - And Those Are Economic Inequalities.

It's More Instinctive To Want Revenge, But We Are Also Capable Of Immense Amounts Of Forgiveness And Love And A Compassion That Extends Even To Those Who Have Brutalized Us.