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I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.