Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.”
“I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”