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Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#enable #experience #make #marvelous #marvelous thing

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#blame #could #end #everything #good

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#arthur #could #idea #imagine #life

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#affirmative #affirmative action #because #being #embittered

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#built #church #community #european #got

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#life #lot #my life #one thing #other

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#consider #considered #else #going #got

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#big thing #books #newspapers #out #reading