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

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" I get offered work these days. "

" When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. "

" My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name. "

" I'm a good person. "

" 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. "

" I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. "

" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "

" My autobiography was simply the story of my life. "

" I'm going to quit writing. "

" I don't very often read novels. "

" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "

" 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. "

" I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. "

" My wife collects knickknacks. "

" I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. "

" I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species. "

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

" History passes the final judgment. "

" I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. "

" 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. "

" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "

" In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. "

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

" I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. "

" I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it. "

" But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. "

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

" So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. "

" I had two roles for which I compromised. "

" I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being. "