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The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, African American, because we're Black people.
Harry Lennix
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Harry Lennix
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 16
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Harry J. Lennix
Harry Joseph Lennix III
Harry Joseph Lennix
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The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images, combined with the lack of respect among black people in the poorer neighborhoods for themselves, and the part the police and other people coming into those neighborhoods play, it creates no value for life.
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The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.
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Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.
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If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.
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I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.
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The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.
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