I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.
I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.