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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

- Joe Morton
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When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.

I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

For all of the diversity in 'Scandal,' no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a 'boy.' And it's those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.

Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black and brown people from getting people they want elected, which is a far more subtle thing to do.

If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'

I think people believe that I give an aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.

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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.