Itโs easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. Thatโs America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
Michel'leWhen I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry. When started working on my stuff, we created something that was phenomenal.
Michel'leWhen I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.
Michel'leIt felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.
Michel'leI'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.
Michel'leHere are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigโbig money, big businesses selling weedโafter 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?
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