"When you come from where I come from, and everybody doesn’t get those breaks, that luck, you start to question, ‘Why am I successful in life? Why did I go this way, and everybody went that way?’"
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"Michael B. Jordan’s Biggest Fight Is With Himself" in Rolling Stone (13 February 2023)
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Michael B. Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan (born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA), a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. In 2020, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, as well as People's Sexiest Man Alive. In the same year, The New York Times ranked him 15th on its list of the 25 gr
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