Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.James Earl Jones
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
James Earl Jones
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
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My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
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