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- Appreciates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor who appreciates direction.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life can't die. It's a contradiction.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.
- Nov 07, 2020
I shined shoes; I did windows.
- Age Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.
- I Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
- Being Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.
- Nov 07, 2020
African-Americans have a lot to teach the world.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has use for all the old people.
- Finely
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economics of life is against the family.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.
- Filmmakers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is more complex than we think.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!
- Marvelous
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Commitment' is a marvelous word.
- Being Afraid
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.
- Nov 07, 2020
My stepmother wanted to be an actress.
- Exciting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is really an exciting adventure.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so calming, marriage.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020