-- Ossie Davis, 1917-2005, as quoted in The New York Times.
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"We knew that every time we got a job and every time we were onstage, America was looking to make judgments about all black folks on the basis of how you looked, how you sounded, how you carried yourself. So any role you had was a role that was involved in the struggle for black identification. You couldn't escape it."
-- Ossie Davis, 1917-2005, as quoted in The New York Times.
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-- Ossie Davis, 1917-2005, as quoted in The New York Times.
Image from PBS.
