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One Of The Things I Love About Africa Is The Amount Of Dignity And Respect And Humility You See All The Time. You Don't Realise How Often You're Disrespected Until You Are Surrounded By Respect.

Being On Set Is A Hard Thing. A Lot Of People Are Like, Oh, You Get To Make A Movie, And It's All Fun. But The Reality Is, It's A Lot Of Hours. It's A Lot Of Reshoots; It's A Lot Of Waiting. And You Can Become Increasingly Agitated By The Amount Of Time That You Are Waiting. But That's Real.

There Are Black Marriages That Are Still Going Strong 40 Years Later. You Hear So Many Myths That There Aren't Any People Making It, But There Are. As Long As There Are Some, There's Hope.

Heartbreak Was The Impetus To Me Writing Poems And Music In The First Place. Over The Years, I Had My Heart Broken So Badly That If I Didn't Find A Way To Get All The Pain Out, I Was Going To Lose My Mind. I Was Crazy! Like, Wanting To Slash Tires And Smash Car Windows. Crazy! I Was So Hurt That I Had To Write.

I Am Making An Effort To Truly Live. I Don't Mean To Imply By That That I Haven't Been Alive Before But, With My Son Being Here And Such A Powerful Force In My Life, He's Given Me A Freedom To Be More. I Think That Sometimes We Can Get Stuck, And Just The Fact That He's Here Says So Much To Me About My Own Existence. I Didn't Think I'd Be Able To Have Children, And This Level Of Blessing Is Something I Can't Even Put My Finger On.