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Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.
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Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
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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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The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
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