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I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

Boris Kodjoe

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
BORIS KODJOE

Energy Issues Outcomes
Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
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Hurt Issues People
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
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Artist Knowing Views
Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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People Pride Religious
I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
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Emotional Religious Thinking
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
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Black First Impression People
I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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Fame Goal Mines
I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
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People Play Sunset
I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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Come Knows Matter
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
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Acting Education Study
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
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Daughter Mother Wife
I’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
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Country Firsts Heard Life
When I set goals, they’re more tangible than becoming famous. You don’t build a company or a foundation for fame.
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Foundation Goal Tangible
When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That’s why a lot of marriages fail. It’s not because of Hollywood, it’s because you don’t spend time together.
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Actors Hollywood Together
I’m the same person. I don’t put on a face. I’m the same guy every time you see me.
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Faces Guy Persons
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.
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Independent Men Thinking

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

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I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

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