Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
“However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.”
“I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.”