The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it’s not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
CHADWICK BOSEMANI’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.
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I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
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A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
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As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.
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In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
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Our lives depend on vote.
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Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
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You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
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People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
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Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country.
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The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.
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I have skills like a panther, and I am going to change my destiny with it.
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When I attain before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.
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They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
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