"I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into."

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Source : "For Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington, Roles of a Lifetime". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

Cicely Tyson

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“If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.”
“As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.”
“In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.”
“A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.”
“I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.”
“More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want to do in life and never finding it. I'm not one of those people. It has been very obvious to me from an early age who I am, and this has been tied up with creativity, and, specifically, with writing.”
“I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.”
“Thoughts are steered in different ways.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 275, 1991.

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