I was the youngest grandchild and he was the youngest child and only four years older than me,
I've learned that sometimes the synapses in your brain trip up, like stumbling on a sidewalk,
He got me talking, and reading poetry - Edgar Allan Poe was my favourite,
I am quoted as saying that primal therapy cured me of a cigarette habit, sinus trouble and a compulsive sexual urge and, last but not least, cured my hemorrhoids, ... Voices and Silences." ... That seems like hyperbole now."
Luke, I am your father."
I love being part of that whole myth, of that whole cult,
When he was 'The Great White Hope,' it was shortly after [Martin Luther] King's assassination, and there were riots in the streets of the United States,
James Earl Jones doesn't get enough credit for being a path-blazer for actors like Denzel Washington who came after him,
I [could] now say things that great writers wrote. I would never have thought of it myself,
Mr. Jones commands a full, resonant voice and a supple body, and his jealous rages and frothing frenzy have not only size but also emotional credibility."
I sat down and immediately opened my notebook and I had my pen poised,
You have to remember ‘Coming to America’ was the biggest Black film of its time,
Hollywood back then only had room for a certain number of Black actors,
He was a gargantuan presence but such a fine, precise, attuned actor on stage,
A world ended for me, the safe world of childhood, ... Voices and Silences.” ... The move from Mississippi to Michigan was supposed to be a glorious event. For me it was a heartbreak, and not long after, I began to stutter.”
If you were an actor or aspired to be an actor, if you pounded the payment in these streets looks for jobs, one of the standards we always had was to be a James Earl Jones,
I had an English teacher in high school who discovered that when I read my own poetry that I didn't stutter because I wasn't in confrontation with other people's feelings or thoughts but my own,
You can’t think of an artist that has served America more,
I could not get enough of speaking, debating, orating — acting,
I'm more than flabbergasted. There's a word I've learned here in Britain. They'd say, 'I'm gobsmacked,'