When I Set Out To Become An

I Was Born Two Months Early, And Everyone Had Given Up On Me. But My Mother Insisted On My Life.

I Couldn't Adjust To The Racism In Florida. It Was So Blatant... I Had Never Been So Described As Florida Described Me.

My Father Was A Poor Man, Very Poor In A British Colonial Possession Where Class And Race Were Very Important.

We're All Imperfect, And Life Is Simply A Perpetual, Unending Struggle Against Those Imperfections.

I Did Not Go Into The Film Business To Be Symbolized As Someone Else's Vision Of Me.