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The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work. ”
Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you. ”
I want to create a different kind of legacy. ”
Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. ”
Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that. ”
A lot of my comedy is physical, so you don't have to understand English to get that I'm choking to death on cinnamon or falling out of this tree or whatever. ”
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. ”
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape. ”
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. ”
Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce. ”