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" I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' "

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" I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award. "

" African-Americans have a lot to teach the world. "

" Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it. "

" I have always been against the gangster as hero. "

" 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. "

" Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. "

" Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything. "

" 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. "

" I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it. "

" You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own. "

" My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life. "

" You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America. "

" We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms. "

" A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die. "

" Marriage is really an exciting adventure. "

" We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings. "

" My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does. "

" Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together. "

" Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.' "

" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "

" 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. "

" The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. "

" When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts. "

" I shined shoes; I did windows. "