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

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" A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. "

" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "

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" 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 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 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 had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

" I'm a good person. "

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

" 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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" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

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

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" I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. "

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" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "

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" 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. "

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

" As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. "

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