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You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all...

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

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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.

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

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

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

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

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...

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.

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...

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

African-Americans have a lot to teach the world.

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.

God has use for all the old people.

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.

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

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.

The economics of life is against the family.

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

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