So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

You don't build a bond without being present.

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.