I grew up around people with a bunch of serious problems.

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I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really is.

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I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

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I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

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Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are: He loves his wife, his children, and the community.

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Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

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