“Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.”
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
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.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.