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I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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Film Actor
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Springfield
Ohio
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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
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Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.
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I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
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Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?
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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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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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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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Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
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If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.
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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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I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
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But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
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We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.
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I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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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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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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I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be cool and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.
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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.
John Legend
People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.
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