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Nationality: American Type: Entertainer Born: December 8, 1925 Death: May 16, 1990 |
I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

