“People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.”
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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.
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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.
