But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.