Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
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.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
My father was very big on marriage.
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.