Quotes by Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali

[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that’s true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

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Thinking

[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward – my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing – I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the pictures and seeing her get her diploma and everything. But she was doing hair for many years. during that time, she kind of started to discover or tap into her religious studies. It was around the time I was starting to go through puberty and hitting, like, 12, 13.

College

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Religious

Again, having – fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.

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Anyone who grew up in the crack era – you know, I grew up in that era – knew that there were also people out – and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing – but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren’t really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.

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People

As a kid, you’re starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.

Growing Up

Religious

Teaching

At the end of the day we’re all spirits having a physical experience.

Spirit

At the end of the day we’re all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.

Action

Islam

Spirit

Because on that watch list, they would be like, yeah, your name – they told me like, yeah, your name matches the name of a terrorist or someone that they’re watching. I was just like, what terrorist is running around with a Hebrew first name and a Muslim – Arabic last – I’m like, who’s that guy?

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Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

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Unique

Gay, straight – whatever – adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that’s such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

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Quotes by Mahershala Ali

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Again, having – fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.

As a kid, you’re starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.

At the end of the day we’re all spirits having a physical experience.

At the end of the day we’re all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

Gay, straight – whatever – adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that’s such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

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