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If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

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Aziz Ansari
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: February 23
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Columbia
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Aziz Ishmael Ansari
Aziz Ismail Ansari
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