Cicely Tyson Quotes

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Cicely Tyson

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 19, 1933

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

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Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

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I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us - I was the middle child - and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.

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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

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