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I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

Octavia Spencer

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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
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Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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I want to see more women as producers.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.
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We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
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