Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

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

I had two roles for which I compromised.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.