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Wesley Snipes

__ I WISH I wasn’t taught so much fear in my childhood. Fear of going outside. Of failure. Being a chocolate guy, you came with a lot of issues. Even walking into a room, walking into a party, being a dark-skinned guy had some very interesting issues around it.

__ FROM WHAT I’M seeing, chocolate is a blast right now. I’m like, wow

__ I WAS TEN years old. My I walked home with no shirt, no twenty dollars, terrified of my mom.

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