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" If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. "

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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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" History passes the final judgment. "

" To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. "

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

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

" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

" I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life. "

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

" I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. "

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" Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. "

" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "

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" 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. "

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" I get offered work these days. "

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