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Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided to run, and they single-handedly changed the trajectory of our nation. By running to the North, they put a face to slavery, which recruited a lot of abolitionists.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
My mom bought me an 'Anne of Green Gables' journal. And I just remember thinking it was so cool, and I could write anything in it.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
If I have a jump rope and a resistance band, I can work out anywhere. Even without a jump rope. If you do 200 jumping jacks, then drop and do some crunches, and then do some squats, you're good.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
It is a beautiful thing to work on your relationship.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Marriage is a work in progress, but it's beautiful.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I'm such a huge fan of Gap! My mom used to dress me in Gap overalls that I would wear all the time, and now the idea of bringing my son into that tradition is so ironic and full-circle for me.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I always said, 'Whenever I get pregnant, I'm going to embrace all of the body changes that happen.' My focus has not been on any sort of snap-back or anything like that, because your body won't be the same after giving birth, and if anything, that's something to be celebrated, embraced, and owned.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
After being a mom, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and instead of trying to be our old selves or get our old body back, we should embrace who we are now.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
It's such a transition and it's so empowering to become a mom, but there are also many challenges. Just remind yourself, every minute, every day, to be kind to yourself.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I'm a nature lover.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
We never get fashion shows in L.A.! Ever!
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
With 'Underground,' we see that the wounds that we all, as a nation, inflicted upon our brothers and sisters during slavery have not been healed.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
A lot of the issues today may not affect us personally, but we can't stay in our comfort zone when it comes to protecting our brothers and sisters. We have to get out there and use our voices for them as well.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
There's a lot of progress happening in TV. You have amazing shows like 'How to Get Away With Murder.' You have people like Shonda Rhimes, Lee Daniels with 'Empire,' and Jason Katims with 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Parenthood.' You have people behind the scenes writing complex women.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know about. And it's actually a very empowering side of our history.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I'm a research queen.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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