Darkness Quote by Winston Duke

“It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward.”

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I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.

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I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

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I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

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We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to…

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I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.

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My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'

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I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

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All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new…

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I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice…

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The panther is sleek. The panther is sneaky. The panther is covert. Meanwhile, the gorilla will show up and bang on his chest and…

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As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor…

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I am from Trinidad and Tobago, so I actually grew up in Tobago on the beach, just running around, playing, watching really creative people,…

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