I Don't Ever Want To

I Don't Ever Want To Be A Sentimentalist. I Prefer To Be A Realist. I'm Not A Romantic Really.

Before My Grandpa Built His Own Church, We Went To The Neighboring Town, And It Was A White Community. You Know, Up North, Mostly Middle European People And Indians, Chippewa Indians. We Were Welcome To That Church, But Once We Got In, They Didn't Know What To Do With Us.

My Grandmother Had The Most Dramatic Effect On My Life Because She Set Me In One Direction, And I Had To Go Back The Other Direction For My Sanity, And For My Ability To Be A Social Human Being.

I Got Out Of The Army - In My World - I Came To New York, For Instance, When The Civil Rights Movement Was Just Beginning, And That Created A Certain Energy, A Certain Rumble, A Certain Impetus For Black Actors.

It Has To Be Real, And I Think A Lot Of The Problems We Have As A Society Is Because We Don’t Acknowledge That Family Is Important And It Has To Be People Who Are Present, You Know And Mothers And Fathers, Both Are Not Present Enough With Children.