Lionel Richie
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And for him to accept his role.
as the educator and also the beacon of hope.
When I got that in my book, when that man came up to me and said, you must survive because you're our beacon of hope.
There's a moment in time when you realize there is a responsibility here.
And whether you wanted to be the teacher or not, there are folks looking at you besides the folks in Tuskegee.
But it doesn't come, I keep trying to tell people every day, it doesn't come with the word flawless.
You put your foot in the shit.
And the only way to know it, the only way to understand it, you know, what you don't want to do is have someone describe to you life because they read it.
I want to know about life that you lived it.
Now, that's the person I'm taking my advice from.
Unless they're Rick Rubin.