You Know I Am An Actor, And

In Russia I Felt For The First Time Like A Full Human Being. No Color Prejudice Like In Mississippi, No Color Prejudice Like In Washington. It Was The First Time I Felt Like A Human Being.

This Is Our Home And This Is Our Country. Beneath Its Soil Lie Bones Of Our Fathers; For It Some Of Them Fought, Bled, And Died. Here We Were Born And Here We Will Stay.

Artists Are The Gatekeepers Of Truth.

The Talents Of An Artist, Small Or Large, Are God-given... They Are A Sacred Trust.

Through My Singing And Acting And Speaking, I Want To Make Freedom Ring. Maybe I Can Touch People's Hearts Better Than I Can Their Minds, With The Common Struggle Of The Common Man.