"If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact."
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"I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers."
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"Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it."
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"Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side."
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"I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now."
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"I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal."
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"I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it."
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"The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect."
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"In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women."
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"When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things."
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"When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them."
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"I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change."
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"I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19."
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"Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now."
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"If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim."
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"You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it."
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"I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself."
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