Chris Tucker Quotes

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

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• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  

  Chris Tucker
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