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The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
It is so calming, marriage.
I shined shoes; I did windows.
'Commitment' is a marvelous word.
God has use for all the old people.
Life can't die. It's a contradiction.
My stepmother wanted to be an actress.
I'm an actor who appreciates direction.
Revolutionaries don't get job security.
Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.
Marriage is really an exciting adventure.
When you know my love, my love will warm you.
A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.
Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.
I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.
I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.
I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.
We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.
Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.
It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.
We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.
I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.
I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.
I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.
Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.
Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.
Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'
You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.
I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.
We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.
