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The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Boris Kodjoe

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Boris Kodjoe
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: March 8
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe
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I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
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I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me. I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball. When I come home, the only thing that changes is that I take off the suit and put on tennis shorts and play with the kids.
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I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
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It's a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
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I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.
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We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.
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I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis. That's what happened.
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I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.
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In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear, and how the buttons felt. I liked to walk on the street in front of our house when it was raining, and jump into all the puddles. That's weird, but that's my earliest memory.
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Secular artists see themselves with performance they are more self involved, presentational.
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I believe trust is a choice.
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
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I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.
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You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
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I went back and researched the history of gospel where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
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I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
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