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I'm like always smiling but I'm superaggressive. I have like a different type of chip on my shoulder.
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I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.
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What if Macauley Culkin were black in 'Home Alone?' Most people would write it differently... but I would write it the same way.
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When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all the content that's out there, there aren't many African-American protagonists. I looked at it like, if there isn't someone else creating it then I have to do it myself.
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When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.
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Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.
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Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren't good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool - even weirder, it meant not really being black.
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As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl.
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I've always been interested in clothing because it's an extension of how we feel.
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If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.
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For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn't seem like the right thing, because you didn't fit in. You didn't want to be too smart because you'd be a nerd. But then you didn't want to be too dumb either because then you didn't get the grades you needed to play.
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I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.
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My ultimate goal is to live forever, but the only way to live forever is to create and you always want to be there for your kid.
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With 'Dear Black Boy,' I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently.
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I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don't always have to be the worker bee.
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I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.
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I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.
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Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.
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The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'
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I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.
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I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.
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I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn't like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he's brilliant.
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A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.
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I'm always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people.
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I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.
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I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.
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Playing with my brother on the Patriots would have been amazing, but at the same time I feel like my work as a creator is more important.
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Playing with my brother, that's the only thing I didn't get to do in football.
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I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.
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I feel like I'm a better person without the game of football. I'm happier.
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I'm kind of like a black unicorn out there. It's amazing to watch. You go out there and you see a big, black guy running down the field, it's usually me.
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I want to be so far removed from the idea that it's like, 'Oh, right, he won a Super Bowl.' Football is only a small part of your life.
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I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.
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