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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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