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We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.

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You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

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There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

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I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.

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I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

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I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.

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After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

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I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

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When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 27th, 1936

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