My father was very big on marriage.
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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.