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Jaleel White Says He 'discovered my purpose' Writing Growing Up Urkel

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Jaleel White Says He 'discovered my purpose' Writing Growing Up Urkel
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Tuesday on "The Talk" Jaleel White opens up his new book Growing Up Urkel and finding his purpose. White shares, "I just think we live in a different age now, you know of sharing. I kind of came up in the age of like, oh you better not tell anybody, you could get blacklisted...so a lot of times you just took it on the chin." He adds, "There are so many things that I've lived that I want to share with people. I didn't realize when I wrote this book, I discovered my purpose in this business...All of us, every last one of us, even this audience, you have a purpose. And you gotta figure it out. It's a puzzle for you to figure out in your life. I started doing these Comic Cons during a period in my life where I was signing all these autographs. Any black man that came up to me, any person that wore glasses around that time, were like 'People used to call me you. You gave me so much confidence to feel better about myself.' I had no idea just trying to do physical comedy and having fun on the set that I was inspiring all of these people out there who felt some kind of way about themselves, and I was helping to give them, instill self-confidence in themselves. Be awkward, be you, don't worry about what other people say."