I Had Two Roles For Which I

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.

To Simply Wake Up Every Morning A Better Person Than When I Went To Bed.

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 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.

When I Set Out To Become An Actor, I Had Set Myself A Standard.