J. August Richards Quotes
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.
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For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.
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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
