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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 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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"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."
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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"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 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."
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"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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"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
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"Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine."
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