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" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "

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" God has use for all the old people. "

" I think I have something unique that I'd like to share. "

" 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. "

" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "

" OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. "

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

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

" You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody. "

" 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. "

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

" Life can't die. It's a contradiction. "

" You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either. "

" One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist. "

" 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. "

" The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component. "

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

" I shined shoes; I did windows. "

" I'm an actor who appreciates direction. "

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

" I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important. "

" There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries. "

" I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. "

" I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever. "

" 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. "

" It is so calming, marriage. "

" Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit. "

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

" 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. "