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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

I grew up with a very religious background.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

My father is my inspiration.