Djimon Hounsou Quotes

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• I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child…
• School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer.…
• America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing…
• Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
• If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
• I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.
• The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find…
• My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.
• Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
• I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.
• Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so…
• As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve…
• Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but…
• Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

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