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I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

From Djimon Hounsou

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

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If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

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The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

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I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

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The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

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My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

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The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

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