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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Every wall is a door.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

I felt that if there wasn’t going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

I don’t know if it’s a romantic comedy but I’m in the beginning of the first of the season of “The West Wing.” We shot it last year. I don’t know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I’ll jump on it.