I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

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

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.