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"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."
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"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."
"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."
"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers."
"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."
"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
"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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