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Club Random with Bill Maher

Listen Now: The Sage Steele Show | Billy Dee Williams

Club Random with Bill Maher

Club Random

Film Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Stars Wars Lando-legend, superstar OG actor Billy Dee Williams & Sage Steele on breaking the color barrier, the pressure black public figures face, Billy’s charming demeanor, learning from different cultures, valuing individualism, true diversity, self-realization, spiritual awakening, the universe’s energy, maintaining privacy, spiritual awakening, God, faith and more. Sponsor the Sage Steele Podcast: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/the-sage-steele-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

because and especially now this crazy world and people can attack anonymously.

0:05.2

It's a whole, right? But I've always been fascinated when people tell you anyone,

0:13.6

but especially if you're a public figure,

0:15.9

that this is how you should act or speak or vote

0:21.0

or whatever based on your skin color and with Tiger and Michael Jordan they kept saying well you

0:26.7

need to do this and stand up more for the black community and they said you know why

0:31.5

because we have the same similar skin color like what is what are the rules there and I I always was a little

0:37.8

not knowing them especially at the time why is there pressure why is there pressure from you know the black community to say you must do this and I respect them for doing what you did which is saying this is how I choose to live regardless of what the

0:55.2

expectations are. Why do you think there's that kind of pressure that people put on each

0:59.9

other? I think most people are not. They don't think as individuals. I don't know. Let me see if I can put this into words without offending anybody. Listen, it's great. Let me repeat the quote that you said at this stage of my life. I don't need to apologize for anything. So you say what you want to say.

1:18.0

Yes, that's pretty much it, I guess.

1:22.0

Listen, if people want to join organizations, they want to join groups, if they want to create

1:29.8

a kind of solidarity that gives them credence or some purpose, that's fine. But there are those

1:39.2

of us who don't need to go through life in that way.

1:46.4

Being put in a box almost.

1:47.8

It's like, why am I, I have to think this way

1:50.4

because I look this way?

1:51.3

That's close-minded. That's actually racist to me where I'm like no

1:54.8

we are individuals in a beautiful way we don't have to think the same we probably

1:59.9

have very different opinions about things and that's that's beautiful isn't it?

2:03.3

Yeah absolutely. That's diversity. Yeah I mean that's the way it should be. I mean

2:09.9

there are lessons to be learned and and somebody if somebody comes

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