I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I'm going to quit writing.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.