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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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Springfield
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I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.
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The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
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No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.
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My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine
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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.
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I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.
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I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.
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I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.
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Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
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For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.
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I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
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The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.
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We should care about what is going on in the world.
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I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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