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 couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

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.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.