A Lot Of Acting Techniques Are Very

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.

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.

Some People Study A Text Very Deeply. The People Are My Text. I Study Their Words And What Their Words Sound Like, Over And Over Again.

Many People Are Afraid To Talk About Race Because It's So Emotionally Loaded. We Don't Have The Vocabulary To Talk About It. Every Day, Our Vocabulary Seems More And More Inadequate.

I Call The Language Of Political Figures, Pundits And Administrators "the Haute Couture Of Language."