I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
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“Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.”
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