“Producers have stopped hiring Blacks just because of pressure. They se...” — Paula Kelly Quote

Producers have stopped hiring Blacks just because of pressure. They see there's a market out there. The name of the game is money, and we're making money for them. That's all.

I'd love opportunities to try anything although I'm best at comedy now. But no one benefits taking on anything he's not right for just to be doing another big movie or show.

You're never too old to develop some new aspect of yourself.

I eat lots of mustard greens and collard greens. My mother cooks all the traditional southern food.

We were poor, yea, but I can't say there was anything terrible about my youth. It was a Manhattan kind of life. There were lots of kids on the block, and we played in the back lots. We invented games and skated and played ball.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.