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The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.

Chadwick Boseman

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.
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Career Decision Discipline Finding History Inspirational Job Planet Purpose
Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.
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Guy Natural Problem Solution Strategy
Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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Fight Justice Life
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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Ability Attain God Life Satisfaction
One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’
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Actor Character Judgment
I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.
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Love Need People Realize
In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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Darkness Inspirational Leadership One Liner Rise
I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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Artist Instrument Music Script Writing
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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Aspect Bad Character Freedom Goodness Important
You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
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Appreciation Clock Different Tension
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.
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Actor Actress Black Lives Matter Industry Work
I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
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Box Check Hero Interest Try
I wasn’t a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, ‘Oh, I have this comic book here.’ It wasn’t like I was collecting them.
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Book Comic Kids
In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
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Dreansm Shoot Movie Role Script Television Time
People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.
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Agree Biography Need People Real
If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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Future Inspirational Mistake Past Repeat

The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.

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The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.

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