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This Is A Career About Images. It's Celluloid; They Last For Ever. I'm A Black Woman From America. My People Were Slaves In America, And Even Though We're Free On Paper And In Law, I'm Not Going To Allow You To Enslave Me On Film, In Celluloid, For All To See.

The First Time I Acted Was In High School In Florida, And When I Heard That Applause I Felt So Alive And Felt That Electricity Go Up My Spine.

The World Has White People And Black People In It. Even In Harlem.

Of Course You Want To Do All The Research That You Can, But It's Impossible To Take A Life And The Boundaries Of An Hour And A Half, So There Is Hope There Will Be Understanding About That Also.

In Feature Film World I'm Very Much...a Hired Hand. It's A World Of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - They're Able To Produce And To Star And It's, That's Not My World.