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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

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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

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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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? ↗

— James Earl Jones

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

— James Earl Jones

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I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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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

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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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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

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