It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.

I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11"". So I just picked baseball.

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

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