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" African-Americans have a lot to teach the world. "
Lot
Teach
World
" A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die. "
Youths
Nation
Die
" An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you. "
Appreciate
People
Thought
" Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.' "
Hollywood
Did
Fact
" Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them. "
Filmmakers
Grateful
Black
" Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God. "
Black
People
History
" Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. "
Black
Know
Women
" Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. "
Relationships
People
Lived
" God has use for all the old people. "
Use
God
Old
" God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. "
God
Fear
Will
" I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting. "
Come
New
New York
" I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction. "
Direction
Talent
Personality
" I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough. "
Good
People
Tough
" I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep. "
Me
Know
Woman
" I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything. "
Anything
Remember
Lack
" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "
Harlem
Arts
Meaningful
" I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever. "
Numbers
Remember
Bread
" I have always been against the gangster as hero. "
Against
Always
Been
" I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. "
Enough
Words
Think
" I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important. "
Learned
Just
Great
" I'm an actor who appreciates direction. "
Who
Direction
Appreciates
" I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award. "
Night
Day
Long
" I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment. "
Stock Market
Look
Punishment
" I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' "
Remember
Like
Rights
" I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist. "
Care
Love
Myself
" I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. "
World
Triumph
Soul
" I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe. "
You
Really
Believe
" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "
Remember
Got
I Remember
" I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it. "
Job
Road
Respect
" I shined shoes; I did windows. "
Did
Shoes
Windows
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