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I Think That Having A Black President In This Country Has Been A Seismic Shift, In Terms Of What Has Been Going On Racially In America. I Think That America Is Now Engaging With How We Have Come To This Point.

We're Not Served By Only Knowing Our Finest Hours Through Film Or Media, Or In The History That We Are Taught. I Think The Only Way We Have A Chance To Not Make The Same Mistakes Again, Is To Historically Understand The Bad Behavior And Mistakes We've Made Previously.

I Would Make The Tea On A Daniel Day-lewis Set Just To Observe How He Crafts Roles Like He Did In 'my Left Foot.' That Was The Equivalent Of Seeing Haley's Comet For Me. I Just Couldn't Understand How That Was Possible.

I Think Until Britain Acknowledges Just How Much Of A Presence Black People Had Here Before The Sixties, Then There Are Certain Stories That Are Not Going To Be Inclusive Of What I Have To Offer.

You Can’t Have People Curating Culture In This Way When We Need To See Things In Order To Reform From Them.