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I Used Read About Dr. King A Lot As A Kid. Independently, From Being Assigned It Or Being Told By My Parents Or Anything, I Was Just Really Excited About Him. So I Just Started Reading About Him Very Young And Was Inspired By His Legacy And Looked To Him As A Role Model.

People See Me As Pretty Low Key In A Lot Of Ways. And For Me, Like, Even Choosing To Be John Legend And To Be Who I Am As A Star, As An Artist, It's A Risk 'cause I - You Know, I Graduated From College And Worked As A Management Consultant, And I Could Have Had This Very Kind Of Buttoned-up Life And Worn Suits To Work Every Day.

I Was A Busy Kid In High School - A Little Bit Of An Overachiever, I Guess. Prom King Was Kind Of Silly, But The Rest Of The Stuff Was Important To Me.

Well, I Was Always A Bit Of A Political Junkie. Even As A Kid I Would Read Biographies Of Presidents And Of Civil Rights Leaders Like Martin Luther King And Frederick Douglass And Booker T. Washington.

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