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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder. ”
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ”
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings. ”
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types. ”
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world. ”
I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place. ”
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there. ”
My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order. ”
Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. ”
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write. ”