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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."
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"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."
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"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."
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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."
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"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
Racism
"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."
College
"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."
Thought
"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."
Content
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
Actor
"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."
People
"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"
Thought
"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."
Time
"I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time."
History
"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
Events
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