I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.