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Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best.
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Chips
Best Hope Your
Casino
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What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.
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Corporations
Include
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Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
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Chess
Economic
Sophisticated
Al
Pawn
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It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.
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American President
Odd
African
Studio
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I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
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Me People Listening
Too Many People
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I'm not chasing independence, I'm chasing Walt Disney. I'm looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.
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Independence
Chasing
Pie
Tiny
Walt
Disney
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African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.
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Corporate
Corporate America
Equitable
Donations
Fair
Hire
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When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.
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America
Coincidence
Country
Earth
Greatest
Nation
Subtract
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We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.
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Jobs
Access
Economic
Housing
Inclusion
Stronger
Capital
Every American
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I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.
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Bills
Comedian
Seconds
Six
Instincts
Develop
Laugh
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There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.
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Carved
Independents
Journeys
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I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.
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World People Way
Seat
Depicted
Produced
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Black America now has the power to achieve economic inclusion, which we rightfully deserve because we built this country. This is a conversation that white America doesn't really want to have.
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Achieve
Black America
Conversation
Deserve
Economic
Inclusion
Rightfully
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I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.
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Comedian
Fascination
Las Vegas
Vegas
Davis
Hired
Palace
Standup
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At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.
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African American
Deeper
Throwing
African-American Community
Ages
Catch
Households
Poverty Line
Stone
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When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.
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Boundaries
Comedian
Died
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Great People
Hate
Losing
Real
Rights
Love Great Start
Amendment
Love Great Hate
Amendment Rights
Bad
Comedians
Punishing
Push
Sign
Start
To Love
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When 'Real People' aired in 1979, we did OK in Los Angeles and New York. What kept that show from being canceled were the ratings from the middle of the country, and that's what kept us in the top five. I learned then from co-hosting that it was important to focus on the country between Los Angeles and New York.
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New York
Five
Focus
Los Angeles
Middle
Focus Important People
Angeles
People New Important
Los
Ratings
Real People
York
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