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If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.
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I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
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I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.
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When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
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I'm a citizen of the world.
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Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
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I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
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When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
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It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.
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In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.
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I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
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You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
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Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
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You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
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I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
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People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'
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I'm not concerned with what people think of me.
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Learn to love being black.
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Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
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If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.
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In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
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Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.