“I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.”
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots, ' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
