I Think That Art Is Supposed To

When I Got Out Of Acting School, I Was Lucky To Have Gotten Any Job At All. A Lot Of People Hiring African American Actresses - It Was Right After 'roots,' And For Society, Not Me, It Was Great. Nice Richly Dark-skinned People Was The Fashion, And I Was Not.

You Know If We Were To Look Back And How We Were In 1955 Living In Jim Crow, Living In Segregation, Living In Segregated Schools, It's Hard To Believe That It Was America, But It Really Was.

What My Work Is, Is My Approach To It. It's The Practice. And My Work Is About The Effort That I Make To Get There. And I Think If There's Anything Artistic, It's In That Middle Space.

Perhaps Art Is A Quest For The Perfect, Or Even The Imperfect. Reality Always Falls Short On Both Sides.

I Went As Far Away From Home As Possible In Terms Of The Development Of My Imagination.