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I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

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Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

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They were looking for someone to play the neighbor of the Jeffersons. I thought it would be a nice trip to Los Angeles. When you get a call like that, you don't expect much to come of it.

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I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem being black.

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I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a leader - someone like Martin Luther King who was doing something for black people.

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I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

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I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Actress

Born: August 28th, 1929

Died: December 2nd, 1995

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