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"With that incident, God had increased my global brand and persona. I didn't really appreciate the way he did it, but I was the world's most famous person for 48 hours," he said.
Harvey said he made it at a time when there were very few black people on television. "My family said to me, get a job like your brothers and sisters. We grew up very poor. My father was a coal miner, and my mother was a Sunday school teacher," he said, adding, "There were no black people in television. My family said to me that I got to get a job like my brothers and my father. No one in my family, neighbourhood, or my school was a TV star," he said.
However, Harvey told all young people gathered, "The dream you have, has to be bigger than all your problems. When I was homeless, my dream was bigger; and I was black, that didn't stop me from dreaming big. When you have God, you have everything."
Before he landed his first TV gig, he was homeless for three years and lived out of his car. Harvey said he wanted to become a TV star when there were very few black Americans on television. "Bill Cosby was my very first role model. I found it fascinating that he could talk back to people on the TV," said Harvey.
"Television in the US is different. You have to be careful, and Hollywood is an ugly place. I don't recommend it to anybody as it is very tough. If you are not a person of faith, you will not make it. There's much corruption," he added. He advised young people to surround themselves with likeminded people and said there is no substitute for hard work.
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