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Aja Naomi King

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TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing. - Aja Naomi King
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Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is. - Aja Naomi King
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I think it's well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes - I'm a huge 'Scandal' and 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. - Aja Naomi King
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We all have our family issues from time to time. - Aja Naomi King
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When I was younger, my mother tried to get me an agent because I was always singing and dancing, but whenever she took me to an audition, I would just shut down. - Aja Naomi King
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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing. - Aja Naomi King
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I love Haagen Daaz Caramel Cone, or the Ben and Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake. Pairs well with anything. - Aja Naomi King
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It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience. - Aja Naomi King
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My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake. - Aja Naomi King
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My hair routine is to let someone else do it. - Aja Naomi King
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I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt. - Aja Naomi King
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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing. - Aja Naomi King
#Back
#Know
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#World
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. - Aja Naomi King
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#Learning
#Not Knowing
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Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain. - Aja Naomi King
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By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing. - Aja Naomi King
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